Beggars and Travelers

We are drifters. There is no where and no one we truly belong to, and vice versa. Complete freedom has always been there for the taking, just a step away. How we fool ourselves into not taking that step. How we convince, confuse, lie, manipulate hurt and entangle ourselves into web after web of entrapment.

Why?

Because, we are afraid. Afraid of what complete freedom means. We don't understand it. We invented God. We invented religion and we invented love country religion race caste family language civilization science labels sects stereotypes songs movies and everything we have just so that we can avoid this one burning question. As we travel through life, dying one day at a  time, IT is always there. Always waiting for us. Calling to us when we least expect it, when we believe it is gone and faded away. Freedom. The only way to truly live. Ties are called ties for a reason and we keep tying ourselves down. Will we ever take that leap? Maybe one day we will get enough courage to do so.

Till then, we are all in the black. Can't see or be seen.

Stand by me

I see, Ben E. King. I get the point.

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid, no I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
And darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me.

If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
And darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me-e, yeah.

Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me
Darlin', darlin', stand by me-e, stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me.

Kitten

I saw the sun for the first time.

It was beautiful.

I looked around and I saw you silhouetted against the sun. You had pulled me out of the underworld. Why?  You drifted around me like a lazy cloud, cleansing away the darkness that had shrouded me. The darkness that had been my home.   

I looked on. Paralyzed. What is this that I feel? How do I define such overwhelming beauty in words? I felt myself sinking in your pine scented depths. Your voice sang to me like the mountain winds and for the first time I let myself close my eyes and I slept. What joy, it is to experience the sleep of the content!

I woke up to find myself trailing behind you. I followed you. Breathless. You showed me colors that I had never seen. You made me believe when there was nothing left to believe in. I held your hand - held it like a man coming face to face with his wildest dreams.

Like a sailor lost in the tempest, searching the heavens for the north star, I had searched for you. Only you had decided to come down. You stepped on the earth for me. Even as the heavens wept, I knew a taste of paradise.

I know addiction. The meaning of the word 'need'. I know true happiness and inexpressible pleasure. I know you.

You teach me the way of light as I teach you about the night. Together we form a day. Complete. Unbreakable. Forever.