Necessity & Purpose

One can be the necklace that craves for a missing piece of diamond in its thread.

One can also be the diamond that makes the already beautiful necklace a little more complete.

I would rather be the dark, ugly coal whose presence is vital for a mud stove to make it achieve it's noble purpose.

Disoriented

I dont know...

Where lines straighten

And where lines bend,

Where things start

And where things end?

Will lights flash

Or will beams fade,

Do I have the guts

Or am I losing - skeptical & afraid?

What destiny holds

And what will I get

Whether I'll be happy

Or will I regret?

How will I succeed

Or what will fail,

Is it rough waters

Or a smooth sail?

Whether to climb up

Should I descend?

Do I carve my path

Or should I follow the trend?

Who is my foe

Who to trust as friend?

Also, if I bid them this moment

Will I get to see them again?

Its dark out in love, as well

And I cant see a thing

Is future a reality

Or is it just my dreams?

Stuck in a perpetual loop

And in middle of nowhere

Eyes look out

Mind rambles

Searching answers 

Here & there.

Within all my confusions

And all the imaginations

Some visible dreams

And some hallucinations

I pull some courage

And gather my strength

I push myself forward

Ready to take every challenge.

But as time moves far

And the world moves ahead,

Me and my thoughts - disoriented in Love,

Remain confined to my bed.

- Gaurav Satle (2010)

No Longer Present

When you, once deeply in love,
Are all by yourself,
And have, besides you, your past

Along with some old memories
And a few songs
That had then become your ballads...

And when you,come across someone,
Equally disoriented in their Lost love,
Sharing their similar past experiences
With You,

And when you realise they had lived
Those moments with the same Intensity
And a purposeful sense
Of staying rooted to their adored loss,

It reminds you of yours,
It shakes you from within,
And you start re-living
Your extinct past again
Together with their recent past

The sharing of the flow of emotions
Becomes a complete, rounded conversation.
You witness a resonating echo
Of voices of your heart from theirs
Without having uttered A Word!

And when you discover,
In those conversations,
A possible future
And discovery of reinvention of yourself,
You realise
Together...

That You still have some life left within you,
And it is beautiful, probably more,
Than your rich past.

The absence of your past
Is fading and doesn't matter.
The presence of your future
Is blurred but felt very strongly.

You re-live a dream
And a beautiful one at that,
Although both - the past & future,
Are no longer present.

#ASF #GSAT

I Want to Go

I want to go to a dream world,
where instincts take over
and impulse soars high.
Where thoughts are unrestricted
and limitations are nowhere in mind.

with no cellphone to disturb
and no watch to show time,
Where there is no direction
to restrict where i go,
and no part of my body is mine.

Where the sun shows the light
and the stars tell me that its night
Where the moon cools the mood around.
I shouldn't know how long it has been;
& nothing shows the time.

where the insects talk
the trees listen
and the every bird sings a song
to let me know I am fine.

With no one to say a 'Hi!'
So no chance of bidding 'Goodbye'
I know my dreams will be my own
& there will be no secrets to hide.

Where I don't have to anywhere to travel
No journey to begin so no journey to end
Where no one will be dependent on me
And no desires to pend

Where the world around shows what colours can be
and every visual brings delight!
Where only the darkness brings out the blacks
and only a flower shows whats the white!

Where the stream teaches how to play
and the rain shows how to enjoy;
where the placid lake shows me how to lye
And the falling leaves exemplify how to die...



drafted nearly 4 years ago

Re-Appear

Each time you appear in my thoughts,

my mind sees you floating away

into nothingness,

slowly and steadily

gradually but surely

just like a cloud in the sky...

until the time there is nothing left in my mind

until the time you re-appear in my mind

and fill it once more!

Clairvoyance

When I have the camera in my hands
I get transformed.
I get possessed.
By an energy that seems to be endless.
The camera then becomes the extension of my body,
the lens an extension of my eyes.

I become Clairvoyant.

For me, writing is praying in solitude

Stop now for 1 min. Say a silent prayer of thanks for you life. Pain will pass. Joy will remain.

To be faithful to someone, first be faithful to yourself.

You can't avoid pain, but when you write it down, you will feel better. Try this.

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

You may not know what you want, but you must know what you DON'T want in life.

If you wait for inspiration, you're not an artist, but a waiter.

Live with no regrets and love with no excuses.

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

If we are in love, we are making love all the time, even when we are not.

Be the best and get prepared to be attacked by mediocres.

When you say “yes” to others, make sure you are not saying “no” to yourself.

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

If it is still in your heart, it is worth the fight (even if you lose...)

My Camera and Me

When I have the camera in my hands I get transformed. I get possessed.
By an energy that seems to be endless.
The camera then becomes the extension of my body, lens an extension of my eyes.
My actions become divine...

I still see no God.
May be I become one. I would do no wrong.