"You"

Another of my poems...wrote it a few weeks back...Enjoy!!!

It may seem I have forgotten things, even you,
And this was a lie I believed in, and made it true,
Moved on with my life, to never remember the past,
I never thought one look at you would break it at last

There you stood in a queue,
Oblivious to how my eyes pierced you,
A feeling of love and hate rose in me,
And that is when I forgot to see

That you should have been just another face for me,
Just another face in the crowd,
With your ego in place,
And nose high, in vain and proud

But you were special, as I had always known,
You never let me control feelings of my own,
Every time I thought I had forgotten you,
You reappeared, making my worst fears come true

How I tried and tried, day and night,
And still I do...., with tears I fight

One day, I will let go,
And maybe that day is sooner than I know,
Till then, you stay on in my thoughts, and my mind,
With a force that is difficult to unbind.

The Six Fundaes

As I sit on my desk, in my room, my mind wanders. I have been doing enough timepass on my laptop: surfing the net to check my mail, checking my scraps on orkut (knowing there are no new scraps, yet thinking that by clicking the “Home” button again & again, new scraps will appear), to continuously unbold any NB name which was bold, on Dbab, constantly checking my Gtalk list.

As my mind wanders, my eyes wander too. I see the various things I have pinned to my pin board: a newspaper article which reads “You can change your destiny”, an article with an SRK pic on it, an A4 sheet with a compilation of my pics taken when I was in SF, my time table for this term, a small Santa Claus kind of a thing (isn’t red and white though) given to us on Christmas last year by our floor Tuchchis. My eyes finally settle on a single sheet of paper stuck to the pin board right in the middle.

It’s a sheet which has 6 very simple rules of life written on them. These rules or rather fundaes were given to me by a person who probably disliked me then, and maybe still does. Or maybe not. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter what I think of that person, doesn’t matter that we don’t talk to each other anymore. What matters is what the person said, and the fact that they made sense to me. These 6 fundaes have stayed on with me and I try (if not always) to follow them.

1. Live life simply

2. Do not complicate it

3. Don’t look for support

4. Be ready to provide it

5. Don’t reject what people say

6. Don’t accept everything too

They might not be the best, but they really suit me. Even though I don't follow them all the time, someday I will. Coz I know they make sense for a person like me. Coz the person who said all this knew it made sense for me. :)