Snowflakes

A bluebird flew.. 
More bluebirds followed..  
And another. 

Swings, slides and merry go rounds creaked, 
Empty playgrounds called their little friends to come play, 
As none came but the chilling wind, 
Blowing leaves in mornings bleak.  

So the bluebirds flew, 
Bluebirds flew South, 
And another.. 

She was kind to kids, 
He was overwhelmed by their chatter, 
She'd swing em around in her arms, 
He'd give em rides on his back all day. 
They weren't there either, 
Cause they came for the children,
Who were away on vacation, 

Above the bluebirds flew, 
Invisible against the sky, 
And another... 

Snowflakes fell, scant and slow, 
Trees became whiter and sun shone brighter, 
Parks were deserted, no school buses were seen, 
Nor an ice-cream truck in sight, only a white hazy sheen, 
For December had arrived and in its wake the people had fled, 
To beaches in tropics and islands alike.. 

Where the bluebirds flew, 
The bluebirds flew there to, 
And another.. 

It wasn't chance, it was merely unfair, 
Which is why it was this way, 
They didn't go to church, But merely walked in arms, 
Never praying but forever wishing, for a little luck to come their way, 

Bluebirds afar flew, 
Bluebirds flew to lands far away, 
And another... 

Soon the earth spun, and seasons changed, 
The parks they filled, the buses they plied, 
Running all over the city, for ice-cream they once again cried, 
All came back that evening in the park,  all but one, 
Their favorite one.. 

Bluebirds chirped, 
Back North the bluebirds returned,
And another.. 

Wondering what had happened, 
They rushed to find out, 
Tried her place, it was locked, 
Couldn't find her at school nor in parks,
The Cityhall and even the church they tried
A tiny red haired girl, nowhere they could find, 
And then they got the news, 
Her parents had been lost at sea,
Leaving the little one all alone behind, 

The Bluebirds flew in circles, 
Them Bluebirds couldn't fly, 
But another.. 

How'd the earth spun, they never did realize,
Oceans in their aftermath had left something behind,
A wish for them, closure of a kind,
But a bus came, for a foster home that night, 
He only got the news the next morning, 
All day next and the night thereafter she cried, 

The Bluebirds swayed in the winds, 
Braced the gust the bluebirds did, 
Another tried... 

For it showed them a way, twisted although it was, 
They'd get their wish, something they never had, 
A child of their own and guardians for the poor child, 
Solace for all, but yet the world argued, 
Morality, fate and blasphemy they called it, 
The Other Bluebird simply called it divine. 

And so the Bluebirds fly, 
Bluebirds seen flying by,
Yes, another..

Leaky sands of a broken hourglass

No place for forgiveness in a world that knows justice,
The Saints be lost in a sea of numbers,
In leaking sands of a broken hourglass.

If only,
They knew, to know the why,
Backs turned and heads bowed,
Each firefly caught,
A masked revenge,
An inward storm avowed,

Lessons in time,
Given no thought,
Moving onwards ,
A cadence fought,

The only pain remained in hurt and hunger,
Smiles be woven, wrapped in leaves,
None won the war, brothers just the same
Lost in fiction be those who lost,

To decency, pledged
When all our hearts,
Stirred a pot,
And rose a better lot,

The Saints be found, in homes abounds,
The world was fair, in a century too far,
Eons went by, for the cosmic dream to come around,

No place for forgiveness in a world that knows justice,
The Saints be lost in a sea of numbers,
Split of a second it took to spun,
Why the when? The heart wonders.
Only in Leaky sands of a broken hourglass...

Ground beneath your feet.

Sometimes,
The waves are so silent, only white tips are seen,
The moon is a lighthouse, and amidst the fog,
The man is alone except, yes!! Ah, there's a dog;

But..
Time, time is removed from the equation,
And space, the sense of space is just.... Just Lost!!

To even gulp down, that inexplicable omnipresence, to even breathe,
Feels like a sin, like betrayal,

And in that picturesque, she rises.. Like a piece puckered from heavens,
In your mind, her face,
Expressionless, her eyes,
Infinite,             

and there....

Like dew on a fresh leaf, leaks a tear drop, rolling into a mudball,
Just as they give away, and them knees hit the sand..

A memoria, a reminiscence, of her touch..
As if pixie dust brought a message, travelling through a whole universe,
Which he.. I..  I almost got, or.. almost missed!!

Choking.. Smiling at not knowing..
Reality from love, imagination from hurt.
The defiance in me, the innocence in her!!