Love rests on influence

Your love for someone

Is linked with the influence

You wield on them.

With clutches releasing

The intimacy is relaxing.

Brake broken, hatred sets in.

04.05.2007

The religious hatred

Muslims and Christians

Who are converts of Hindus,

Have got no nostalgia that

They were once Hindus

As Hindus who were converts

Of Jain or Buddhists,

Having no nostalgia that

They were Jain or Buddhists.

Temples were replaced by mosques

As shrines of Jain and Buddha

Had been replaced by temples.

Religions destroyed brotherliness

04.05.2007

The touch

Touch is physical and mental.

Words can touch; deeds can too.

Touch on shoulder sooths

Touch on hand assures.

Touch on hip arouses.

Touch is a subtle language

Born before the language.

The poor only practise it

04.05.2007

Identities

I bought a car, built a house

And threw parties with strains

To belong to higher strata.

There I was held the lowest

For my small car, small house

And small hall parties.

I wish I had not done.

04.05.2007

Cry out

Shedding of tears is a safety valve.

Wanting to cry but unable to

And wanting to cry but refusing to

Are equally bad to soul and body.

You must cry and come to terms with yourself.

You must cry and feel calm after a storm.

It is not futile to cry over the spilt milk

If it demands a cry from your heart.

01.05.2007

Freedom of sex

Neither Ethiopia nor Elder ado

Could give you the optimum pleasure

Like the place where consensual sex

Is neither shame nor a ban by law.

01.05.2007 

The latest is the best

Every time I selected a pair of specs

To replace the old ones,

I held them the best I have got.

So is the case with the woman

I fall in love with.

01.05.2007