7.10.07

Your Birthday Gift





Your birthday gift


I stand with an upturned lip
I stare at my slanting feet
I thought I’ll give you the best gift
Alas! I feel lost in the mist

Of broken smiles and powdered faces
Of compressed sighs and shackled graces

And a tear trickles down my glazed eyes
Leaving a trail of charred cries

It lurks in a corner
I wait to take it back with me
It’s invisible among tinsel wrappers
And glitter of fashionable philosophy

I had thought I’ll give you the best gift
But then the child in me is cruel indeed

No one told me what you like
Honestly I did not care inside
I painted a face
As I see yours in an embrace
Marveling at its accuracy
I completely forgot its utility

Now I feel ashamed
Something in me has been unwillingly framed
If only I had thought
What would appeal and what not
My gift would have starred
This movie starring labels of all sorts

But does it count?
What matters? My reality or your frown
I only wanted to give you the best gift
Now I take it back, away from such intricacies
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  2. well.....thnk u........

    though i dunno if thts an appropriate response if someone calls u a poem [:P]

    but thnks for commenting on my poetry.....

    m still confused though....

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  6. i aint responsible for your lack of imagination m i...........


    ;)


    and the future is always scary dear..dont worry bout me if u r .......it would turn scary for u....


    btw do u write too??

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  7. Hmmm..do i write too...!!! :-\
    For all these years i thought i could write well but now i need to go back to school..this would be like dejavu all over again.
    In consequence, I have relegated my thoughts...!!

    Well..on the lighter shade...does some incorporeal spirit protect you that would turn my future scary..?!!
    ;)

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  8. well maybe and maybe not......

    and u r certainly adept at beating around the bush...but somehow its a see through site....isnt it....perhaps deliberately...

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  9. loved the usage of words to achieve the perfection of a visual medium, all the imagery clearly painted. i could see the poet right there.

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  10. thanks ya....on the face it sems kinda childish but i wanted to depict tht lil sumthing which matters...

    although i wrote it a long time back....there r sum things which m glad i cud capture...

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