NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST

Nice guys finish first?

Cheaters and grudgers can try their best

Twisters of truth, can mislead the rest

Yet, nice guys finish first

Abusers of power, and breakers of trust

Seem to, but prosper!

Yet, nice guys finish first

Cooperating to begin, and ready to trust

Yet, giving back cheaters with equal jest

That’s why, nice guys finish first

Now and forever; east or west

Nice guys always,   finish first!

INFINITE LOVE

The loving rays of morning sun reach out to the darkness of my empty soul

 

As the encircling warmth of this unfathomable love awakens me

Kindles in me; kindles in me, an ablutionary fire!

A fire that consumes me, and leaves me no trace

Vapors from my immanent existence diffuse into this uncharted universe of love  

And Ashes of my concepts and ideas get blown away with the evanescent breeze

As the embers of the conceited self are extinguished by the soothing touch of the morning dew

Wisdom blossoms with every budding flower

And compassion flows with every gurgling stream

The inherent love over flows into infinite dimensions of reality

As the morning sun, enlightens me from my fugacious existence

Let this transcendent love overflow into infinity

EVANESCENCE

The morning dew vanishes in the brilliance of the radiant sunshine

The beauty of the flower withers away with the passing day

The foamy waves break by hitting the sandy shores

All composite phenomena once formed, pass away

Thus is the beauty of  Evanescence !

Thus is the beauty of life !!

CHOICE

Do you still think?

Do you think you can choose?

 Choose to, and not cling

Can you choose between, the desert sands,  and the heavenly skies?

Can you choose between, Love and hate

Evanescent form, and unlimited joy

Comfort of unshatterable faith, to the insecurity of the nascent reality

 Familiarity of tangible concepts,  to the ever fallible ever evading truth

The Cocoon of self importance to pervasive emptiness of impermanence

 The Blinded bubble of parochial perception to the universe of interdependence

Can you choose between a pointless self identity, or to be lost in everlasting suffering

Can you still choose?

                                                              

Can you choose to choose, and not cling?

Can you choose and become free?

LIGHTNING FLASH

You were the lightening of my barren sky

As you struck me with love so suddenly

You lit my sky with life and meaning

Yet you went away in a flash

As I open my eyes in a blink  

Your form has left me, and my heart bleeding

Yet your presence haunts me everyday

Your laugher crackles in the monsoon sky

And your smile fills the face of every passer by         

                                                      

Your desperate prayers still ring the bell, of every empty shrine

And your memories plough through, every nostalgic thought of mine

Your little life in fast forward, flashes into every frame of mind

As your pointless pain, defies the limits of space and time

Yet, your life has led me!!

Led me to the meaning of love and the meaning of life

Your life made me realize!!

Love!! And only Love is the meaning of life !

EXPLOSION OF LOVE

Feel the molten love built up compassion as it explodes in violent ecstasy

Feel this shattering explosion of love transform your virtual existence

Let this supernova of love make you surrender your egoic resistance

Emerge from of the eclipsing cage of your conceptual prison and wake up to the realm of endless love

Let this love fill your every cynical atom with the universe of possibilities

Let her fill every sentient being with soothing love that overwhelms suffering

Let her melt away the illusionary boundaries of convention, between ideas of you and I

Let her gather everything in her path into an amalgam of everlasting love

In this molten sea of love

Let me drown and die; and wake up again , to this everlasting love

Let this explosion of love sustain for ever 

WORDS

Words are weapons, and words are tools

They shape the fate of kings and fools

Many a meaning; and of many  kinds

The only window into sentient minds

 Words are plenty; and left to choice

But pointless words, often add to noise

Hurting words can drown a broken heart

And a proud word can drag lovers apart

Careless words can fuel hatred's fire

And  untrue words haunt the evading liar

So don’t shed words, without a reason

Words that feed, hatred, lust and self delusion

Think before you speak; before your wild tongue leaps

Speak only! Words of universal virtue

Speak only!  Words of love and compassion

Switch on the filter of the virtuous mind

And speak only!, words that are truly kind

Words !! The only window into sentient minds!!

ALL IN MOMENT

The Sun’s rising and the stars shining

It’s all in a moment  

 

Birth, death and happiness

It’s all in a moment

Eyes meeting in soulful union

And helpless hearts broken in separation

It’s all in a moment

All your love and hope, and precious memory

And even your pain, and misery  

It’s all in a moment

The first kiss, and the last one too

It’s all in a moment

Belief, trust and heartfelt prayers

It’s all in a moment

Experience and existence

And the root of all sentience

It’s all in a moment

So don’t be caught in hatred or self delusion

Be compassionate and relish every moment

As, all is in the moment

Living  life, from moment to moment

STORIES AND THEORIES

Stories and theories are but a convenient rationalization

As they twist and turn the arm of the available information

                                        

Joining the dots of the known and  leaving the unknown behind

To the world of unknown unknowns they are truly blind

Formed of Sufficiency and completeness biases of the mind

They make you see your bubble world with clarity

But leave you with an incomplete and distorted reality

Formed as a retrospective explanation

They bias you with egocentric self evaluation

And clinging to your pet idea and striving to get to the root

You never really get to the hidden truth!

So learn to see the world with and open mind

Don’t cubbyhole reality into chunks of a kind

Learn to a take a   flexible perspective

And see beyond the artificial divisions of subjective and objective 

For truth wanders beyond stories and theories

Be thou beware of stories and theories! 

MINDFUL MUSINGS

Awake in the comfort of the embracing moonlight

The world is asleep, as I stare into the starless night

 Far beyond the racing clutter of thoughts  and  language

To the silent land of solitude where the mind sits still 

To the realm beyond concepts, ideas and beliefs 

Where there is no separate observer or the observed 

Where there is essence-less  peace and timeless wisdom

Where emotions beyond words,  conquer the corners of the caged mind and set her free

To this mindful state of enlightenment let me be awakened

Let me be awakened into this everlasting slumber of emptiness  !