It goes beyond words!

It goes beyond words
This thing I feel
I just can’t explain
Just look me in the eye
And you will know
It goes beyond words

This numbness
I just can’t describe
Words welling up
Stuck somewhere beneath
My throat –
It goes beyond words

The tears held back
Restrained
Filling up the eyelids
Trembling
It goes beyond words
You will never know

This silence
So eloquent
Heavy and laden
With meaning
It goes beyond words
You know

This air I breathe
Your presence, your whiff
My mind recalls
Long lost fragrance
Of a love once was
It goes beyond words

Maybe I am wrong
The feeling’s just too strong
Maybe it’s still there inside
A flame burning so bright
Scorching


It goes beyond words
It goes beyond words







A Poem by MVJ Simon

A Walk along the Lakeside

Walking along the lakeside
Sweet mist in the air
Clouding my vision
I see no reason to look afar

Time stands still
Moments so precious and rare
Watch stops to stare
Wondering why the slave smiles

The tang of pepper
Coffee blooms and cardamom
Overpower the smell of wet earth
Moist with a light drizzle

The crunch of gravel below my boots
Creaking crickets and whispering wind
Raindrops drumming on red tiles
Green with moss and algae

I walk up the path into the forest
Tall giants of trees block my way
An umbrella gifted by God himself
As I sit in calm under its shade

The raindrops display valor
As they rage and thunder
Lightning flashes strike terror
And thunder roars with a deafening voice

I hunch myself and tuck my legs in
As I wait for the rain to subside
Strange that it’s dry around me
A circle of warmth from above

As I look up through the dense foliage
I see the sun emerge through the clouds
Droplets dripping from freshly washed leaves
Lazily, wondering whether to leap or not

The rays reach through the rustling leaves
Leaving shadows ever-changing
Whistling the wind blows again
Ruffling my neatly combed hair

I get up slowly from my resting place
I have to go, though I wonder why
I have to make a living in the city
While losing this life I’d rather have

Glimmer

Walk into the fire
Into flames that singe
Leap and lick
Eager to consume

Into that flaming core of rage
In that blaze, melt down
Melt with the heat
And flow down

Changing form and self
Molten liquid hotter than flame
Taking on a new form
A new shape, life anew

Out of the furnace
Glimmer now
No trace of rust
Shimmering glow

Years of disuse
Patina of age
Cleansed by fire
Emerge unscathed

Hard metal now
Solid steel core
Take me on
I’m game

Will never crack
Whatever the blow
Been through fire
That makes me strong

Flame

Self immolation

Isn’t that what you do everyday?

To spread some light around

And show them the way?



Blind fools groping in darkness

Stumbling…falling…getting hurt

If it were not for you

Throwing some light around…guiding them



Will they ever remember

That it was you who gave them light

At a time they were fumbling

Not knowing what lies ahead



Yet you burn yourself out

At pyre of knowledge

Sharing what you know

Without a care



Lighting many earthen lamps

With your burning flame

The room glows brighter

When eager young faces shine



You know you’ve done your job

When you don’t see them again next year

In your class, in this room

They’ve moved on to greater heights



Some day when they come back

And tell you how good you’ve been

Passing on the flame of knowledge

That made them who they are



Someday, when they forgive your chiding

and red welts on palms

And realize the pains you took

In making them learn



You’ll feel that’s it’s justified

Your troubles forgotten for a while

Someday, when the oil gets diminished

And the wick shortened



You’ll bask in the glow

Of a thousand lamps lit!

The road downhill

The road downhill
Winding snake-like, creeps
Making me want to just throw up
I shudder as I hurtle down
Deep gorges and valleys

Tight, I shut my eye.

Bumping over potholes
Aching back and numb mind
Eyes sleepless, red with rubbing
A rumbling belly drives me on

That’s all I can think of now!

Piercing through the darkness
Twin swathes of light beam the way
Don’t know what lies beyond

Just pitch darkness, not that I care

I close my eyes into a dreamless sleep
Tired and weary, it’s bliss for a while
Thrown and thrashed by jolts
I wake up with a start, to drift again
Somewhere down the road, the bumps cease
And I wake up in my favourite fantasy

Here I am in the big bad city!

I gaze up in disbelief
Towering high, in the skies above
Glistening in the sun, my eyes squint
I shade them with my cupped palm

My ears get used to the un-nerving din
The wail, cries and roar of the multitude
Voices crying to be heard
Louder and louder the wails
I hold my nose as the stench invades
Rotting dreams or putrid flesh?

The city smells of unwashed hopes
Of a million dreams of sweet success

I swing my rucksack on to my back
My knees buckle, yet I do not fall
Steady on my feet, I take those steps

Into the crowds, I lose myself!