The Train to Nowhere

You see a train in the distance,
You see it coming towards you,
You can’t gauge its speed,
But one day you know it shall come to you.
Do you stay where you are,
And wait for the train to arrive?
Or do you run towards it,
And rush to take your place?
And are you really sure it is your train,
When you [...]

A river that also flowed

We both came in from the same place,
Somewhere high up in the mountains,
Where all you find is ice and snow,
And nothing to obstruct your flow.
We flowed by the rocks,
Hitting them left, right and center,
Deep ravines and shallow river beds,
Were all our doing, remember.
Such a good time we had,
Flowing in swift rapids,
Taking whatever came in our [...]

Change is in the air

It’s been so long,
Since I have been staying here,
I have come to know the spiders here,
That’s how long I have been staying here.
But now that is about to end,
Am leaving for a faraway place,
Another town,
Another face.
This had to come about some day,
So shouldn’t be a surprise that it’s arrived,
Yet there is a touch of melancholy,
And [...]

An Ode to Calcutta

Some say its a dying city,
Others say its a rising one,
Does it matter to me,
If it’s my home you’re talking of?
Well, not my home exactly,
Since I have not stayed here much,
And neither have I been born,
On its soil per se.
But every Bengali worth his grain of salt,
Dreams of settling here one day,
And feels infinitely passionate [...]

Meeting her in June

It was the month of June,
Some guests were to come,
And I wasnt too interested,
In who was to come.
They came in the evening,
We had a good time,
She was unexpectedly nice,
Think we struck a subconscious chord.
She went back to her life,
And I should have gone back to mine,
But something in my mind said,
We are gonna stay in [...]

Just a Bad Day

There are days when the skies are blue,
With no clouds around,
You can do nothing wrong,
Everything you touch turns to gold.

And there are days when the skies are dark,
With clouds all around,
Nothing that you do will not go wrong,
Everything you touch turns to stone.

You know you are not alone,
In sharing your grief over bad days,
Everyone has [...]

The Story of a Frog

This is the story of a frog,
Who was probably just like any other,
He croaked all day long,
And ate insects when he longed.

The life of frogs is wonderful you see,
You just need to broaden your minds a bit,
They are relaxed and carefree ,
And don’t give a damn about anything.

They don’t have a career to choose,
All they [...]

A Poem on Friendship

When I was young,
I used to think,
Friendship is a relation,
That is meant to be.

All my life revolved around them,
What good times we had,
Whenever I was with them,
Time always flew so fast.

Our happiness we shared,
Along with our sorrow,
We just kept on having fun,
Like there was no tomorrow.

Times slowly changed,
Our ways became different,
I still used to [...]