Step Aside Sleep!

Step aside Sleep and never again peep
For he’s all mine and I love him so deep!
Be a little kind and show me some mercy;
Help me not blink and help me follow the heresy!

I shall if I can, still the time till perpetuity
Just to keep looking at him and to feel his affinity
I want to engulf him with my soft embrace
And charm myself with his vivid grace.

You have been so loyal, I have been so too
But more do I love him and that’s always true!
You have been my life all through my life
Still I would forego you like a child, naïf!

Nothing shall come between him and myself
Not even the dreams nor even my tress.
Listen to me once ‘cos I love him so deep
Step aside Sleep and never again peep!

Glossary:
Heresy = unorthodoxy
Perpetuity = eternity
Vivid = Vibrant
Naïf = Naïve, innocent

Poet’s View:
A romantic piece of poetry, where a young girl does not want to sleep and wants to be awake all night to feel the aura of her beau. She’s pleading with Sleep to step aside and stay away.

The JOURNEY

Peeping through the window, she gazes at the green

The picture is all hazy and never before seen

She knows not how she boarded and where was the station

Nor can she know, what is her destiny or her destination

Her ride of life started when she was born

She is convinced it will surely end once she is gone

The charming Driver would never reveal His trait

The passenger, though aware of this, just has to wait

A distant opposite train approaches her slowly

The coaches cross and the eyes roll coldly

Alas! She is shocked to see herself travelling in that too!

Says the replica “This journey is in search of Him and I am You!”

One is the Journey inside-out, from birth till death

She, the traveler stays put till there is breath

The other Journey will take her outside-in, from self to soul

To realize the truth – ‘He is the part and He is the whole’!

----- HMV

Poet’s View:

Life is a 2-way journey – first – going through life’s cycle from birth to death and the second – realizing God and His omnipresence. The passenger in both the journeys is the same person – You. The female character has been considered to give the softer touch to the poetry. ‘She’ can be ‘Anybody’.