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A Man without a Mission

Every day was as
     The day that went before...
          He rised, he washed,
               He went to work
     And returned home through
          the same door.

His sense of pleasure numbed
     Having experienced them
          Many a time,
By and by he succumbed
     Passionate he could not become
          Nor experience the wonder sublime.

The days went on,
     And on he went -
          A man without a mission
Like the moon going round
     To an orbit bound,
          With no hope, nor ideal vision.

To break the cycle
     Is not enough
          For another cycle may start;
Though all comes to pass
     And nothing can last, we are
           of the universe cycle, a part.

O how to break free?
     Well don't ask me!
          I too am in this like you.
Find one who is free
     For then you may be
          A sun, a light ever true.

			Bhupinder Singh
			January 31, 1998
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Cast Away

Adrift on the sea
Left to float away
Tossed by the currents

The years of hurt beat down upon my face like pelting rain
The salt water of my tears parches my thirsty soul
Did you ever really want to know me ?
You cared for me out of promises to the dead
Yet you were willing to sacrifice the living,
          draining the blood of my tender youth

Sitting on the step outside the house...
          Oh Lord, do you know I'm here ?
You did not trust to let me in while you were gone
It was not my house.....not my home

So many days, turned into so many years
Not once did you ask or care what was in my heart
The bitterness of your self-imposed moral obligation
          ....filled the days with a strained horror
The quietness of my pillow and the watchfulness of my Shepherd
          ....brought the only relief from despair

It was not my house...not my home

But now I have built my own

          In past years I would haved called it " Hurt "....

Now I call it..... " Freedom "

Cast Away

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I grasp at the handrail like I do reality,

desperate for support and afraid of falling.

Weakness flows through me where

once there was strength, 

and I smell the perfume of eternity.


His eyes well up with dispair as he looks at shards,

the shattered fragments of his hopes and dreams

strewn on the floor before him.

An entropic harmony pervades

the sable stability of his existence.


What do you see but his wild hair like a puppet of the breeze

and the trembling, sweaty-palmed hands that cover his face?

Can you sense past the subtle frailties

and shortcomings of his corporeality

and see the beauty ethereal?


I know the raging blaze residing in the helpless formless spirit,

a dark inferno of sanity consuming the very essence of being.

But will perserverence dawn and

shine against the blind acquiescence

or sink into a mad elation?


A resolute conformity occurs within us all, a subtle tyranny of soul

that corrodes the light of ingenuity and the salvation of creativity.

We all search for something deep

inside the humanity and humility of another.

With finding comes euphoria.

With failure, just the end.


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Silver Lining

What is it about you?

I can't tell, really

think it's nothing much, actually

just about everything that you do

the way you smile

truly I know now

the feeling of my heart melting

the sound of your giggles

truly that be the sound of bliss

and joy

the child-like ways that you lose not

unlike many sellouts out there

who lose themselves as they grow

ironic that with wisdom comes despair

might that be wisdom at all?

Not you...

capricious joy without childish ignorance

and mellow wisdom without a sigh

sigh to the sights that make you cry

smile on, she says

seeing a silver lining always

or could it be

that her smile be the silver lining

dancing over every cloud

sprinkling warmth, joy

your laughter

heard through rainstorms

drown away all despair

I can hear it now

that warm, giddy sound

of joy and love......


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