SARALA BALACHANDRAN

SARALA 

BALACHANDRAN

Come September ....

Good bye August

See you next year

With cooler air around

Filling our lungs !

Welcome sweet September

Stay for longer

With rains and swift breeze

Roads flooded and rickshawpullers

struggling to carry passengers

but with hopes in their hearts

for more money in their wallets!

They are the lifeline in my city

of Kolkata, helping you get anywhere

far or near !

Flowers in bloom

In my heart's garden

God colours them

With His magical colours

Oh! September !

You are so sweet n cool

Kissing my body bare

With sweet fragrance

Of love in the air !

Stay a little more

But you can't go beyond

Thirty days I know

Which will move faster in the flick

of a second !

The puja merriment in the air

All going shopping for new clothes

Roads crowded and pollution

on the rise, people enjoying

street food to satiate their

taste buds, swallowing antibiotics

to avoid any tummy upsets !

©® Sarala Balachandran

Touch My Soul

Touch my soul if you can

Floating through the fragrant flowers

of heavenly bliss

above the white and blue clouds

I am as happy as I could be

Singing and dancing

With the other lovely souls

You can't touch me I know

As you are just human like I was

before I left my mortal body

His silence was divine when I met Him

at the last hours on earth and blessed me with his holy hymns upon my heart

I am a divine soul now

As I did good deeds many

While on my short sojourn on earth !

Fed and clothed the poor n needy

Comforted the lonely n aged

God called me to His kingdom

To be His favourite

And let me free in His own time

He placed me tenderly

Among the fragrant blossoms

In heaven

Can you touch my divine soul

Try it once atleast

I am wailing for you eagerly

With a bunch of fresh flowers

Just plucked from my heart's garden

Come and touch my soul

Come and feel my love

So pure and innocent

You are in me

And

I am in you

I know this for sure!

Come and touch my soul

This divine soul waiting for years !

The Twilight Glow.

I met you in the twilight glow

You were glowing like a star in the sky

I extended my arms for you

To hold you close

But you shyed away like the coy moon

I ran after you like a mad man in love

As from the time I met you

My heart I hypothecated to you

With reverence and love

I called you many a time

But you shied away again

I will live a hundred years

To make you mine

I will not gift you precious stones

But my loving heart

Which craves for you alone!

You are a drama queen i know

From the way you looked at me

A piercing arrow

Struck my weak heart

I fell for you

Then and there!

Stars may fade away

Moon may wane

Sun may not shine

But my love for you

Will never fade away

It will be like blossoms

of April, fresh and fragrant

till death

do us part!

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BALACHANDRAN