Poetry - The Escape Route

It's so much fun rhyming with you! The poet rises from hurt palms But that's okay he's gonna work charms I am no poet that I can tell But writing makes me feel so well But that's ok if your soul's too hurt You can throw it in the dirt And rise Rise to the Meaning of life. But what if you've been stabbed with a knife, Hurt so much you cant stand at times, Your soul's lost somwhere in the maze, Will you still be the same? If yes I'm amazed! You'll be the same In a different way You'll just have a better meaning To define the way of life! Yeah right, Like the meaning just comes down to one, Life's a game which you've never won, So fuck it till you die, But yeah don't let it make you cry! Life brings what words can't describe Doesn't mean you deny How you feel is all I know 'Cause believe it or not life's Just a show. If Life's a show, I...

It's moving deep in my head, Everything they had once said, Getting up after every fall, Never did we slow down at all, & thats when I learnt to 'Move on' But then, My dreams have been shattered, In all the fights I've been battered, All the tasks we all face, Instil in us that life is a race, We all sit here waiting for miracles, Our mind roaming around in circles There is so much hidden behind the smile, Something no one will be able to find, The tears behind the joyful face, You just cannot understand my case, Failure is something I haven't learnt, Wish my soul in hell be burnt, I really wanna cry my heart out, Wish someone could hear my inner shout, But then that's not the way I have been taught, It's not the way I should have thought, Always been taught to be strong, To oppose everything we feel is wrong...

I still remember the first class of 11th Grade, When on the board all figures were displayed, I asked myself "Is that what I really liked?" That's the moment when that thought striked I always knew I had a way with numbers, This time around I had to deal with ledgers, We started off with the basic terms, And learnt a bit about Accounts & Firms It's not that confusing as people think, Certainly not that boring to make you sink, To the contrary, I loved the journal concept, My mind found it easy to recept, It's just an extension of being organised, With a financial twist, that's what I've realized From the Journal entry to the Ledger posting, It gets easy in a while, and I'm not boasting, Trial balance is where comes the harder part, As long as you've been correct, Nothing can keep you and your tallied balance apart We learnt about the fundamentals and partnerships, Admission & Retirement is where your mind would ...

(Yeah...Enough with the chase It's time to take my life back) Too late for the otherside Calling off the chase 'Cuz it's the end of our ride It's time to express my feelings, I'm gonna put together all my dealings, I don't think she understands how I've always felt, How she's always made my heart melt, Never acted well, all she did was make me pay, I'm down & out now, though I wanted to stay, Look at how I dress, Go to school a fucking mess, Always in a rush to get back to you, All I ever think about is you, Tried to give you nothing less than perfectness, But all I'm rewarded is with this, Ignorance, helplessness, Imma filled with such lifelessness, But no matter what you do, You'll never be off my list, There's a special place for you, In my heart I've kept...(but it's) Too late for the otherside Calling off the chase 'Cuz its the end of our ride Try to keep...

Staring at the night sky Talking to the lonely moon I can't help but notice the stars nearby Fading away in its twilight Yet it's the bright white mass, Telling me how each night is to pass, Reflecting to us the sun's setting glory, Isn't it like a leader's story? To have all those stars near you, Yet you have none to choose, Who can be just like you, All of them follow you through, Still none of this seems to be true. Quite contradicting, yes I understand, But then is where I'd always stand, In between the myths and truth, Forming my own thoughtful ruth, For the moon, for the sun And for anyone who made my mind spun To be alone up their all night, Something somewhere doesn't seem right, I guess I was all wrong throughout, It's the close knit group of stars I should have talked about, The ones together dim or bright, Helping the moon keeping the sky shine all night

The clock has already struck three, Yet my mind does not seem to be free, From the shackles of what the day offered, The moments of nostalgia which has me cornered Going through my previous works, The old memory in my mind lurks, Of the person who was once the closest, But now our hearts on someone else is focused We shared the moments of love & joy, I don't understand why we had to destroy, Those four lovely years of friendship, Those 'lil acts of fights and devilship Those moments of high melodrama, Our temper levels as high as Mt. Fujiyama, Those pecks on the cheek, Chances of it returning seems so bleak Never thought I'd be saying this, But your smile made my day bliss, It was the love that we both shared, We were best friends even if you never cared, So even though that friendship might never again exist, Those years spent together will always be missed, And so I end it with our goodbyes kissed!

As I sit down & analyze my day, I realise there's nothing left to say, Failing in our own expectations, It all leads to a future full of rejections If you want me to be more direct, Let me stop being poetically correct, And let you know what we went through the day, In the teachers' hands our result lay With the passing time our uncertainty grew, Those 6 hours of the day were the worst we went through, Worse than giving these exams, it is To realise how everytime marks give you the piss To fail to plan is planning to fail, But these thoughts are just there to sail, 'Cause whenever I plan, I don't implement, Even though that's not what I've meant As elders say, our lives are without focus, Ah! this is going the way of some circus hocus pocus, We live to enjoy, we enjoy to live, Well that's all my mind is ready to give, We'll go through the analysis some other day, Let me get back to going through t...

As I stand here in front of you, Let's not talk about something you already know, Let's not talk about how great we Indians are, Let's reflect a bit of tradition that is ours Over the course of thousands of years, Our mother land went through a lot of smiles & tears, From the intelligence of our mathematicians to the bravery of the soldiers, From the riches of our heritage to the mixture of our cultures, There are endless things to discuss about, Endless thoughts running throughout But I wasn't asked to discuss all this, 'Cause most of you have it on your fingertips, I was here to share our Indian pride, How all of us must have enjoyed this ride, From the stories we've heard of our Independence struggle, To the CWG's criticism & appreciation juggle, I'm sure we all had that big smile on our face, When our nation came 2nd in the medal race, The Patriotic feeli...

Electricity problem is giving us a headache, Heat stroke is near with the summer wave, When the lights go off & the fans go still, Delhi's Summer is here with the plan to kill, The ACs go shut & the temperature goes up, We face the wrath of the sun above, Power backup is all we want, Global warming - who gives a fuck at all! But if we continue like this, we'll have to call it quit, 'Cause the heat will rise & the clouds won't spit, The hot gets hotter & the cold gets colder, All this burden falls on our shoulder, The next gen. - god knows what they'll face, If sustainable development is not maintained, Who do you think will last the race? Will it be nature or will it be human? Ask yourself, your acts only give the clue man!

I was standing at the edge, Ready to take my final pledge, Infront of me was the whole world, Full of hate, Full of love, Understanding life is very tough The whole journey flashing infront of me, All those lovely faces that I see, Seem to be anything but real, Under the mask, their true identity is sealed What you see is not what it is, Everyone's life from outside seems to be a bliss, But what goes inside is not what you know, Most of them, don't let their emotions flow To understand yourself is what matters the most, It's the biggest battle you'll ever host, Don't wait for its end to come, End of the race for some, 'Cause life's gonna forever go on, I try to plan it out even while walking in my lawn Well, that's all that flashed in front of me today, All that my mind threw my way, I'm back to standing at the edge, My mind ready to form the h...

I've made a really big mistake, Without realising what was at stake, No matter how much she tries to hide, We're going through this emotional tide, I've cried after a very long time, But she's made me smile time after time, No matter how much with myself I fight, I won't be able to sleep tonight, I wish I could rewind time, And undo all of my crime! I don't know what I did was wrong or right, But it did change everything which seemed bright, I wanna find the colours but all I see is black & white, Wanna go far far away, and never come back this way, far away from her sight, Somewhere all alone, where no one could see me cry at night! I keep gazing at my phone's screen, Waiting for the signal green, It's not about what I said, Not about how I felt, It's about what You hadn't said, All about the colour red, I feel like hitting the road, And leaving for a place not known, And stay there forever all alone!

Talking to different people over the days, Just made me wonder, We could live life in so many ways, And there was no reason to surrender, After all life's a gift by the almighty sender We already talked about life being a mix of right & wrong, We've been talking about it all along, But there is a reason behind it all, There is a reason for every fall We may not know just what hit us, In an instant our dreams might flow away as dust, But yet it's better if we don't make a fuss, After all even iron has a solution to rust 'Cause when we fall, We learn to get up faster, We stand up tall, We become our own master Life teaches a lesson every time, I've learnt it through the way I rhyme, I have been hurt, I have been crying, But I still haven't stopped trying, Trying to smile, trying to move on, To be the person to look upon So here I stand b...

Standing there wondering how life's been, How our journey is to begin, After every tunnel, bright light is seen, So life itself might not be that mean Yeah, life's a mix of right and wrong, You can either be weak or be strong, You can either whine about it, Or go ahead and write about it, But it will not change the way, The way you've thought about it They say the world is round, And whatever goes around, comes back around, But the reason behind it is still not found, And you be good or you be bad, You'll still be greeted with a frown, They'll still try to pull you down And that's when you've gotta be strong, Never say never, f ight till forever, Get up after every fall, And make sure at the end, It's You who's standing tall 'Cause when you aim for the top, You just cannot stop, ...

The numbers are spinning around my head, Math is very tough they said, Alphabets + Number make a deadly combo, Trigonometry aint as easy as playing bongo, Permutation & Combination is all I ever understood Applying logic is all I could Geometry is the most boring thing I ever came across, I'd rather do probability where a coin is tossed, The limits we study know no bounds, Derivatives is as tough as it sounds, Math to me is still a mystery, Makes me feel I'd rather study history, Math is very tough they said, The numbers are spinning around my head. We started with stats which is as boring as it can get, Something more interesting than it was a set, "Math Nahin Aata" is what I just heard, Straight lines is the worst thing I've seen on earth, Math is very tough they said, The numbers are spinning around me head Author's Note : Well yeah, Math certainly is a mystery to me and I'm sure there are a lot of pe...

Rhyming is my game to play, To express my dreams destroyed like castles of clay, Whenever I feel I've matured enough, That's when life with me plays rough, Throughout the time I have been writing, Inside my mind I have been fighting, To gain my freedom, to gain my love Or launch myself to heavens above I keep on writing time after time, I don't feel normal until I rhyme, So many people I trusted in my life, Have done nothing but stab my back with the knife, So here I am expressing my grief, My happiness has been stolen by the thief, Writing helps me express my fear, So why should I worry when my pen is near, Even though all this time inside I've cried, I'll still keep smiling 'cause at least I tried, 'Cause sometimes it's good to put on that smile, No matter how much it hurts inside, It still makes life worthwhile, So even though you've cried all night, Trust me that smile would make it alright!

I just realised I never wrote about the thing I loved the most, Its high time I raise a toast, Toast to the beautiful game -  Football I still remember being new to the place, Relishing the challenges I had to face, To learn the game, to earn my name, To make sure it became my life, With football, I've never had any strife  The grass lush green, the smell of the field, The running behind the ball,  The keeper's dives and fall, All united in the love for the game, All shooting for the goal's frame The falling down, The coaches frown, Getting back up on your feet, Fans getting up from their seat, The speed of the forward, The elegance of the midfield, The strength of the defence, The fearlessness of the keeper, It all makes up one family, Brothers together in everything smart or silly The feeling you get when on the field, The passion for the game, No other thing could yield, It's Life's burning flame ...