A Candle for you

Like a cuckoo in the spring

I try to sing your song.

The songs come back to me

Crying – we don’t belong.

Grace me oh! My Lord

With your boundless love

Take me in your heart

Help me rise above.

Breaking all my shackles

Breaking all my pride.

Let me sing your song

Soft and silently

As a candle light

The Broken Mandoline

My heart and soul

Was lying forlorn

In a dark corner of the stately palace

A broken mandolin behind doors

After an eternity it seems,

Who is knocking softly on the door?

Who has picked me up and playing gently on my strings?

Robbed of all my riches

Forsaken by all

I was lying hopeless and torn

Pray tell me Oh graceful God

Were you waiting for this day?

To fill me with your Love to the core

Bless me heart and soul ?

Parrot

A Parrot

When I talk of you

They say , a parrot !

How would they know,

Like the southern breeze

You have sent your message

Filling me to the core

With your divine melody.

I try to fathom

Known from the unknown

I try to put my words to your tune

And they laugh , a parrot !

Desperate , I try to bind your melody with

Music , orchestra, lyrics!

But they remain out of reach-

The fragrance, sweetness,

the heart wrenching pain

That was there when you hummed!

Throwing caution to the winds

I put my voice to your song!

Even from inside some cried

A parrot!

My last offering

The Lotus

The day you came to me a begging

I was drowned by joy and grief

I’d fill your bowl to the brim I vowed

But no pauper; you turned out to be a royal thief

Every thing that was mine you robbed

And yet I glowed like a bride in ecstasy

Holding the Salver on your own

When you called me out from your throne

I was still at choosing flowers

The best for you to adorn

The gales came rushing in

And oh my beloved king

They left barren, all my trees .

Please take me, whispered my heart

I am waiting for Him from the start

Bemused I looked in

And there oh my king

Bloomed a single lotus

My last offering!