The Balancing Act

Some warm homes resonate with laughter Warmed by a mothers care And awakened by peals of a daughters laughter Some homes remain dry In anticipation of a son Ignoring a daughter and her worth They spend their years waiting Talking, planning and hoarding sympathies Looking yonder while ignoring the treasure on lap The mother too weighed down by tradition, Expectation and her own worth at stake Mulls away her time waiting for the hour to arrive, When a male child would adorn her crown And make her life worthwhile Is it you or me or all of them Who have made this thorny way Ignoring the steely determination of so many mothers So many wives and so many sisters Who provide for their children, their husband and their brother So many daughters flocking to their parents in old age Providing for them, loving them and being with them Every day you are eve teased, Sometimes raped, sometimes murdered Put in a bag or pushed from a train Hungry eyes tear you apart Lonely nights lurking in pain but st...

Freezing moment This happened almost a year back. During my daily commute to office along with my colleague in his vehicle I used to see some daily sights and people, who became a daily part of the 50 minutes drive to office. One of the sights was of a beggar woman along with her old mother (seemed like) and two little children , one a girl of almost 4 years and the little boy was always on her hip and he was almost 1. I used to see her at the traffic light every day, and it seemed she slept on the nearby pavement, this was a busy road and by the time we reached the spot, we used to see her begging for some money and then bringing tea and biscuits for her mother and children, by the look of the pavement and things strewn around there I could make out that she lived there itself, maybe. I was really upset to see her everyday in this condition, her clothes were torn and tattered, the boy did not have any clothes below his waist, the little girl also wore a torn frock, the mother was...

Time does wonders. It mellows down people, it hardens hearts, it brings dreams crashing down, it pushes hopes soaring high, it brings life to grinding halt, but it never stops and never looks back. It is me and you who are caught up in the sands of time who travels down the memory lane or builds castles in the air about a few years into future, it is so funny but the speed of time , whether it is going fast or is crawling by, totally depends on the situation we are in , when we are happy time flies, when we are sad time just hovers around refusing to move. All those happy days in school and college when we had no care in the world seems to have zoomed past, the courtship days filled with rosy excitement and sweetness of chocolate on every meeting has just disappeared so fast. When the day of marriage dawned it filled the tummy with rainbow coloured butterflies, by the evening the fragrance of jasmine filled the air, time whizzed past and now on this day of my twelfth wedding anni...

Happy Birthday to my daughter The wails got louder As the nurse bathed you 9 years ago It was a cloudy, cold day And the new born you resisted the bath your own way I gathered you in my arms Kept you close to me It felt so strange having to look after , A frail little baby depended so much on me I was scared to take you in my arms You looked so red and so angry That you had to come out early My stitches hurt and I was tired All I wanted was to sleep some more But you wanted so much of attention Now you have grown up baby You have your own likes and dislikes Sometimes you are so funny You like to read only when you are in the mood You write well and you remember your lessons so well Only you want to play some more And also to watch tv some more Especially Barbie and her stories You have grown so tall And you look so beautiful Your hair is much longer than mine And I am so proud of you Soon you would become a little lady Beautiful and graceful Soon I ‘d be graying and aging But I shall s...

Heres wishing all my blogger friends a very very happy, prosperous and blessed New Year !! Last year I had made many resolutions, and what usually happens to New year resolutions happened to mine also. Could not put leash on my tongue, could not keep the lid of patience on for too long and goofed up big time on many things !! Well that is life, and it teaches us many lessons some way or the other. So I have decided not to make any resolutions for the coming year and to flow with the current.. just hoping that the current will be a positive one , a smooth one and shall take me and my loved ones to the right shore !! Warm regards and best wishes once again!! 2011 here we come!!!

The whole being shivered, glowed , Exploded into a multitude of colourful hues, it became invisible in a matter of seconds Leaving behind a golden sand That speckled on to the heart And then settled on some corners Happy and then weeping, weighed down by emotions Away from the world , away from life Away , far far away… Not to come back , not to let the magic on And just life be, the way it was….

The screaming of my mother till echoes in my head !! The rain was pouring down, we were scrambling for cover from our one roomed quarter to the lofty bungalow , my little sister, the newborn baby was in my mothers arms, my arm was full of a load of baby clothes , while running for cover some clothes accidentally fell to the nearby drainage and went floating away .. the scream was for that.. I was only 8 and was hurt.. was not mature enough to understand the value of those clothes that the drain had carried away with it. The clothes were imported soft muslin clothes for the baby, of course they were hands me downs, but were so much required for the little new born. All that remained etched in my memory was the angry scream that was directed at me.. it lived inside me for quite sometime, it made me feel guilty then angry and then lonely. I always longed for my mother to hold me tight, to love me and pamper me, but she never did.. of course she had her own reasons , very strong one at t...