Lonely Road

So near it appears yet so far away it exists
This craving for love and unrequited wishes persists

I left my abode to stay in a hovel dark and brooding
My love for you made me build you mansions of love

While you roamed freely in the world
I was chained in the dungeon of your longing

I left the lonely road I had traveled thus far
To enjoy the joys of your blessed company

And yet this transient joy vaporizes into hollow emptiness
The moment you do not get every little thing you desire

I suffer immense tortures untold when you close your doors on me
I suffer great physical and mental agony sleeping alone in the hovel

And I see the path suddenly merge into the lonely road
And realize that lonely is all one is in this wicked world

Remember Love And forget all else!

My imagination takes flights of fantasy
Thinking of your lovely presence in my arms

And yet you start thinking of obstacles
And you think vengefully of the past

You try to disguise your dissent and
Convince me that we will be denied happiness

Why do you not quench your thirst in the river
But look at the dry banks and complain of thirst

Quit your hate created by unwanted bias
And listen to the language of love in your heart

Listen not to the vengeful voice seeking to get back
But instead satisfy this longing of mine by hugging me tight 

Eternal Love

Words come and words go
Some pleasing and others hurt us too

Oblivious to all this is my love for you
Like the eternal witness who resides in all

And yet the ego in you and I
Forgets this love when on a high

The wise ones have always said
Words and actions forgive and forget

And yet why oh beloved this propensity
Vengeance has never made anyone happy

Let us desert the little streams of ego
And dissolve in the eternal ocean of love

Macabre

Morose and Macabre is this thing called life
For the lover, it is ever filled with strife

Walking bare foot in the burning sands of longing
Waiting perpetually to catch a glimpse of the beloved smiling

The painful ballads sung heard not by the beloved
Hurt by unrequited wishes feeling unloved

At the temple there are many devotees praying
Will I always be the one to win grace ever lasting

Uncertainty and doubt at every turn
I watch many evil men with jealousy burn

While I come to your temple to worship with love
I see many who are with evil  hand in glove

I always worry should you grant their boon insted of mine
That would be like leaving the lion and crowning the swine

However I tell myself that there is an almighty who is just
And never shall I be hurt if I faithfully believe and trust

The fakir asks me to show me one person who sought his feet
And who was caught in a storm and lost his fleet

I realized that with the Sadguru who looks upon like a mother
We will always be with peace and happy together 

My love

I roamed the world not knowing what I sought
Until I beheld your staggering beauty

In your divine presence my heart sang melodies hitherto unknown
Throwing caution to the wind I danced in your courtyard

The  people in the city think I am intoxicated
I ask them has any lover known sobriety

I wash  my excesses and capriciousness with tears of happiness in your presence
To build a palace of love in my heart for you to reside

The fortress of Ego, anger and false knowledge

I read and re-read tomes of books
To unearth how to please the beloved

And yet as I sat on top of a mountain of books
I saw the stream of knowledge flowing below

As I climbed down to drink the pure water
I saw the beloved climb up another mountain

The beloved stood on a mountain of theoretical knowledge
And built a wall of ego all around to block everyone

There was a moat full of crocodiles like anger and jealousy
And from there the beloved started the life of a despot

Thirsty and angry the beloved was locked in
Looking at me from above,refused to heed to my calls of concern

The beloved looked only at the harsh barbs that came
And not at the love which made me say things

You fail to hear me not because you are deaf, oh beloved!
You fail to hear me because you consider it beneath yourself to hear me out!

I wait encamped at the stream, waiting for the beloved
To shatter the walls, destroy the moat and come down

I wait day and night for the beloved to reason with me
And to come down and quench the insatiable thirst for knowledge

Placid silence

In midst of the din of the market
I maintained a placid silence

Surrounded by tumultuous environment
I stayed the same deep, still lake

This is because I have
seen the beloved's beauty
That the world around me is as good as blurred images

I do not hear the cacophony around me
Because your sweet voice permeates my being

I do not see the lashing waves of rage and jealousy
Since I have drowned in calm waters of your goodness

I do not see the ruins of civilizations around me
For my gaze falls only upon your shrine towering above all else

I refuse to feel the hatred of the merchants peddling their goods
Since only your love pulsates with my every breath

As I gaze upon the spire of your shrine kissing the sky
I whirl intoxicated under the starry sky in your court yard