So I choose my own ...


Bored of the faces living in a daze

bored of the rats running a mad race

Now running short of illusions to chase 

I'm running short of sights that amaze

So I choose my own races to run

and choose my own crossroads to turn

I choose my own typhoons to sail

and choose my own peaks to scale

So I pick my own evils to side

and pick my own battles to ride

I pick my own threads to think

and pick my own poisons to drink

Now I foresee future and the hands of fate

As world grows and adapts, I watch and wait

history gets written on this very date

many will ignore but others will hate

people will hiss and boo, some will shout and cry

and the trials will be fake, the stakes will be dry,

Iron shackles but free, I shall wait for my turn

but smiling still say, I chose my own way to burn ...

Partially inspired from  : http://zenpencils.com/comic/108-sophie-scholl-the-fire-within/

Flightless Orizuru

This is me fantasizing what if all my wishes would come true . And comparing it with the reality and still keeping hope to keep going. Orizuru (Japanese) meaning folded crane. According to old Japanese beliefs if you fold a thousand paper cranes a wish of yours comes true.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_and_the_Thousand_Paper_Cranes

                                                                                 

Only if paper cranes flew

All my wishes would come true

Some hung pretty, strung thousand in a lace

Some perched on table, sidelong aesthetic vase

Some full patterned, colours several a piece

Some simple white, still handsome indeed

Some lie on floor, as angry crumpled lump

Some torn to half, in a waste paper dump

Some drew blood, with paper cuts deep

Some tainted soggy, with last night's weep

But on all hills of joy, in valleys of pain

Amid forest of efforts, wandering lost insane

I march on ahead, till the life-moon wanes

& keep searching treasure, 

keep folding paper cranes

Still ,

Only if paper cranes flew....

                                                                                        -Soloist

(Autumn Leaves)