I will rise

You try to bind me down with your lies

Tie me up with your deceit 

You may try to tear me down 

Break my body 

But inspite of it all, I will rise

Your words like a sword 

Driven straight to the heart

Leaving me bleeding and wounded

But I will not succumb 

To the pain you inflict

Cause you may try to break my body

My soul will forever be free

You lay a trap to ensnare me

Stabbing me in the back

With the dagger that you wield

You cage me, bind me in chains

Lock me in the dark recesses 

What ever you try to do to me

I shall always find my way

Cause I know I shall rise

Like a dead weight you drag me down

Into the depths of despair

You make me feel pain

Like I have never felt before 

Pushing me into the darkness

But somehow I'll shall find the light in me

And banish the darkness that engulfs me

You try knock me down

From the pedestal that you make

That I didn't ask for, but you put me there 

You judge me, mock me

You call me names 

Make fun of who I am 

But you'll never try to   understand me

You say I am different, I am not normal

Causing you to Zumba 

Start calling me names

Your words like stones pelted my way 

Causing me to bleed, causing me to fall

But through it all I shall not give up

Cause I know that I shall rise

You don't approve of the things i do

You call it something of no use

Just a waste of time of a fool

Nothing good will ever come 

from the things I do 

But I know, inspite of all your take downs

I will a rise for all to see

I shall walk with dignity

With my head held high

Being who I should be 

Being who I want to be

Who I choose to love

What I choose to do

Is a decision solely 

For me to make

And I will not anyone 

Take that away from me 

Cause I have the utmost faith in me

And will never loose hope in me

But then there's a you

That cares for me

That supports you, makes you feel safe

Never ever leaving your side

Holding you close in a warm embrace

That fills you with positivity and hope

That you once knew

Never truly letting go of you

Giving you the love that you need 

Cleaning your wounds when you bleed

But through it all will stay with you

Cause with their love We shallYou try to bind me down with your lies

Tie me up with your deceit 

You may try to tear me down 

Break my body 

But inspite of it all, I will rise

Your words like a sword 

Driven straight to the heart

Leaving me bleeding and wounded

But I will not succumb 

To the pain you inflict

Cause you may try to break my body

My soul will forever be free

You lay a trap to ensnare me

Stabbing me in the back

With the dagger that you wield

You cage me, bind me in chains

Lock me in the dark recesses 

What ever you try to do to me

I shall always find my way

Cause I know I shall rise

Like a dead weight you drag me down

Into the depths of despair

You make me feel pain

Like I have never felt before 

Pushing me into the darkness

But somehow I'll shall find the light in me

And banish the darkness that engulfs me

You try knock me down

From the pedestal that you make

That I didn't ask for, but you put me there 

You judge me, mock me

You call me names 

Make fun of who I am 

But you'll never try to   understand me

You say I am different, I am not normal

Causing you to actbstrange

Start calling me names

Your words like stones pelted my way 

Causing me to bleed, causing me to fall

But through it all I shall not give up

Cause I know that I shall rise

You don't approve of the things i do

You call it something of no use

Just a waste of time of a fool

Nothing good will ever come 

from the things I do 

But I know, inspite of all your take downs

I will a rise for all to see

I shall walk with dignity

With my head held high

Being who I should be 

Being who I want to be

Who I choose to love

What I choose to do

Is a decision solely 

For me to make

And I will not anyone 

Take that away from me 

Cause I have the utmost faith in me

And will never loose hope in me

But then there's a you

That cares for me

That supports you, makes you feel safe

Never ever leaving your side

Holding you close in a warm embrace

That fills you with positivity and hope

That you once knew

Never truly letting go of you

Giving you the love that you need 

Cleaning your wounds when you bleed

But through it all will stay with you

Cause with their love We shall risea

Things we do to get by

We live in a world where you are in a minority if you are doing something that you are passionate about, something you love doing, following your dreams. It's the only few times when the minority is the envy of the majority, if that can be said.

Very often we find ourselves in less than favourable situations. Our passions and dreams take a back seat and in it place you have responsibilities which have taken

precedence. We suppress our dreams all because we have mouths to feed, bills to be paid and loans to be repaid. And in all these our dreams get buried and the passion that burnt brightly now is just embers.

Each day you wake up to a routine. You drag your butt out of bed, or you can say your carcass out of bed, trying to make it through the day, hoping against hope that it ain't just another mundane day. But then you are also praying that it ain't another stressful day. And if you're lucky then your prayers may be answered, but then often than not you get double dose of a mundane stressful day. You feel like you're being sucked into a quagmire only to be rescued and be put back again to where you have been trying to escape from.

Very often we find ourselves doing things that don't interest us, working for clients we may have the most colourful words for, surrounded by people that we may not relate to. We would love to be anywhere but here, rather be running, singing, dancing, drinking or eating, but not here. The coffee sucks, the people not quite interesting (cause they too have their share of frustration), don't get me started with the company and it's weird policy, and you are not been paid enough, in fact you're being paid peanuts.

Everywhere you turn you see obnoxious, egoistic, insensitive, morons, making you wonder how did they get so far, how the hell did you find yourself amongst them. Definitely they may have not worked hard cause to work hard you would need mental faculties which they sorely lack.

You just want to scream, to escape, to fly away, fly the coupe, just get out of here. When you are all ready to take that plunge harsh realities hits you. No matter what you do you need to do it cause in life you need a little money to get by. And yes a little help from love and your friends.

So till then, though you cry, crib or stomp and throw a tantrum, these are things you will have to do to get by.

Love... it just happens

Love just happens

You never know what's going on

If it's new or been there since long

If it's right or wrong

Love has a way of sneaking up on us

Surprising us when we least expect it

We may traverse the whole world

Spend a lifetime looking for it

And when it finds us, and not we find it

It takes us by surprise 

For what we have been looking for

Was staring us in the face the whole time 

Love always has a way of surprising us

Like quick sand, it draws us in

Sinking ever more deeper into it

But never sucking the life out of us

Instead giving it purpose, giving it hope

It lifts us up to new heights

Where we truly belong

Love can never be planned

Cause love just happens

Love doesn't discriminate 

It knows not caste, creed

Gender or social status

It only knows to love

And be loved in return

It is the greatest thing we will ever do

A love that discriminates 

Is no love at all

Love will always take you by surprise 

You don't choose who you love

You just fall in love

It doesn't care of gender or orientation

It will only love unconditionally 

In its truest form, love is divine

And to call a love against nature

Is to question the divine itself

Love needs no acceptance of the world

Cause when you love, 

it's just love that matters,

The world just fades away

Love holds no expectations 

Keeps no conditions

It is unconditional 

It believes in giving space 

So that each can grow

You don't own or belong

Love doesn't cage or tie you down

Instead it sets the caged bird free

It believes in respecting 

To live and let live

Love asks no questions 

Or raise doubts and suspicion

Love has no nationality, no religion 

To love is to love without prejudices

To overlook the blemishes

The brokenness, the imperfection

To love a person whole 

Not just part of them

To love them for who they are

What that can be

Love is love is love is love

It is indeed all around

It is what we need 

It is what we crave for

It is that what makes our world 

A better place to be in

The greatest thing we will ever learn

Is just to love 

And be loved in return

Me: A Work In Progress

I am a work in progress

Constantly changing 

Constantly evolving 

Never truly satisfied 

With what I have achieved 

Don't get me wrong

I accept myself the way I am

With all the abilities

I have been blessed with

But I will always strive to be

Better than my best

It's not that I want to be perfect

I know that I can never be one

To me perfection is a myth

 But all i want is 

To be better than myself

The skills that I have been given

Was never meant to be salted

Never meant to be preserved

They were meant to be nurtured 

To be multiplied, to be grown

My life has never been perfect

In fact it is far from perfect

I'm a perfectly imperfect specimen 

A bit damaged, a bit broken

But I accept myself, my life 

The way I am, who I am

I accept the choices I've  made

Whether they have been

Right or wrong, good or bad

They have all taught me

Made me stronger

Moulders me and shaped me

I don't label myself

Based on my preferences

Based on who I choose to love

I may hurt or suffer heartbreaks

But I will always continue to love

Believe in the power of love

And hope for love

I may stumble and my fall 

But with every stumble

With every fall

I know I shall rise again

Cause every stumble and fall

Has something to teach me

And with each of them I have grown

I know I will never be complete

Cause life has so much to teach

And I will continue to learn

Till the day I die 

And even then 

There'll be something

For me to learn

I really don't know what

And I don't know how

But I shall learn 

A constant work in progress

The Music and Me

Switching on my music

Takes me to a place

Where it's just my music and me

Making me oblivious to world around me

For those moments

My cares take a back seat

I am numbed to the pains

That I feel both emotionally and physically

To sorrows that trouble my mind

All seem to fade away

Nothing else matters

Just the music in my ears

And tune on my lip

I may croak

But in my head

I am singing about the shape of you

Like Ed Shereen or 

Wondering how can moment last forever 

Just like Celine Dion

Knowing that my hips don't lie Like Shakira

Or shaking my Bon Bon

Like Ricky Martin

My gender doesn't matter

It doesn't matter 

That people stare at me

Wondering if I am high on anything

Or just plain cuckoo

But that doesn't matter

Cause I have no cares

For the world around me

It doesn't matter to me

I am immersed in my music

A maestro conducting

My grand orchestra 

Letting the lyrics 

Resonate through my being

Touch me, move me

Well me with emotions

Often letting me step to its beats

With a shuffle here, a shuffle there

A bit of hop, a bit of skip

A side step and a Susie Q

Kicks and flicks and leg extensions

I am a ballroom dancer 

A Latin dancer

Doing a Samba, a Salsa, a Cha Cha

The world doesn't matter to me

The music gives me rhythm

And my body moves to the rhythm

I am taken to a world

Where I am slow dancing With my love

Just us and the music

Serenading the love 

We have for each other

The love in our hearts

For these few moments 

I have no care for the world

I have a smile on my face

A song on tongue

Love in my heart

The pain I feel,

The tears I have wept

Have been swept away, dried away

Giving me a freedom

A feeling of soaring

Flying high, over the clouds

Over the rainbows

Way up high

And in these moments

The world as I know is forgotten

It is just me and my music

Living with Consequences

We get what we deserve. What we sow is what we end up reaping. Karma can be a real bitch giving back to us as much we give.

Sometimes it can be a bitter pill to swallow, but what we do always has a way to come back and haunt us. Nothing remains a secret, nothing remains hidden for long. 

We end up hurting and being hurt. No matter what the intention may be, we are left tattered and torn, bare and strung out for all to see. No words, no deeds can serve as a balm to calm the pain.

What's done is done and things cannot be undone. Though we live grasping for hope, grasping at thin air, but what has been done is done and gone. Now it's our turn to live with the price we pay. 

Thinking what could we have done differently will not help now. It's the consequences which we need to live with. 

So no matter how much we may hurt, wail, break down, we need to pick ourselves and continue to live way we always do.