me in sherwani, you in ragged clothes

You come to me in your ragged clothes

But can you pay me if I tutor you

In the way of life and teach you

To navigate boats without fear? 

Even if you can't I will mentor you

Have no fear, my misfortune changing

Into fortune, I navigate the boat;

Me in my sherwani, you in your ragged clothes. 

My imaginary love

The madness that had gripped me

Now abates to reveal my love for thee

No matter what life serves, I have

Circumvented the hills and the curves

For this lovely love that I hold for you

In my heart, never to be forsaken:

My imaginary love. 

Hope in Bombay's sun

In Bombay's torrid summer sun

Where half the job stays undone, 

There I find hope rekindled 

For soon there will be Monsoon showers. 

The children play, their sweaty brows begotten, 

Mothers nourish them quite forgotten, 

Soon as the teary skies, reddened by the sun

Sprinkle love down Bombay's noble gutters. 

In gutters where many a man had lain, 

Footloose, abandoning his mortal pain, 

Soon as drops tickle down his toes

The summer madness must die down. 

In the changing weather patterns of Bombay's sun

We would soon seek some shiny rays on us, 

There is always hope in Bombay's tropical sun

For all ages alike for where there is work there is fun. 

karma

As the sun rises and the waters flow

So does my karma with all its slough, 

I take a vow to never disparage anyone, 

With my chant of the ever-sonorous

Nam myo ho renge kyo;

My mentor watches from holy eagle peak

And I awaken in the moonshaft

Sometimes, in the sunshaft at other times ;

As the planets shine and the stars twinkle

I keep myself afloat in this river of eternal life;

My mentor never leaves me with his watchful eye, 

My heart his! Nam Myo Ho renge kyo! 

rising hope

As I lie beneath the peepal tree, 

I find that the leaves gaze at me, 

I sing a song to rightly denote

That my heart is filled with rising hope. 

mother radiant

My mother so radiant as the sun, 

Her heart full of hope, love and peace;

Her eyes glitter from the million gems

She has seen; seeking courage and belief;

My mind a quagmire of untold sorrows

That mother refuses to acknowledge or gather;

My mother who has seen God before

Sees the light of hope in everyone. 

The glorious moon

The glorious moon that can't be seen

In the sunlight still shines on me, 

The unicorns play truant

And magic arises in the air! 

hell is in the place I dwell

Hell is in the place I dwell. 

Is it? Is it not? When you

Pick up your armour

And attack me with plaints 

To others, in your heart

No love, but hatred of

A kind that eats into

Your soul; you gnaw

At the flesh, unable to

Forgive or seek forgiveness. 

With forbearance I say

I am sky-bound, ready

To take off, fully sound;

Hell is in the place I dwell

Today; but tomorrow I sit

Atop a cloud, hell beneath me. 

No CCTV cameras

Ma: CCTV cameras! 

Doe: No way. 

Buo: I apologise for hitting you that day. 

Ma: I'll let go of the idea if you promise me love. 

Doe: I love you. 

Buro: Fine, no CCTV cameras. 

Under the summer sun

In the summer sun the hills

Resound with melodies, 

Calling for harmony

On the patch grass

Where many cattle

Graze, amidst cadavers;

Life is longing for some

Love, for some succour, 

Under the summer sun. 

what is the theory of madness

What is the theory of Madness

May I ask? Is it giving up imagination

And holding the mind to task;

I think it is in response to violent means

That serve no Justice, and the Truth

Must reveal. Once upon a time

Being mad was good, for lovelorn

Lovers and gigantic soldiers;

But today you would have me locked

Up In the dungeons with no food

Or water? your violence is slavish, 

It reeks of a putrid smell that

Adorns this cave where I dwell ;

You beat me up to no avail

With your evil-intentioned

Thoughts that create disharmony 

And disunity; seeing your violence 

I grow to be kind and loving

And humble and keep in mind

That the end to violence is

Spreading love and joy. 

That my friend is the theory

Of madness; spreading love

Where there rests an evil mind. 

A formidable foe

My foe, when did you harbour

Hatred in your heart first towards me? 

Was it yesterday or was it in a past life? 

Even though I bear you no enmity, 

You have decided to beguile me, 

First, with your complaints and second, 

With your overbearing attitude. 

I, who only seek, kindness and humility, 

And service to humanity; the violence 

You have wreaked against me

Rains down in your foul words. 

Arise, my foe! Embrace goodness;

It's never too late to give up

Violence and foul speech;

What is within reach is freedom

From your slavish behaviour, 

With love in my heart I offer

You a plateful of food; arise

And awake! Stop not till the

Goal is reached in laying down

All the armoury and laying sweet kisses;

I am not meek but sweet amidst 

Adversities, laying down my sword;

Abandoning foul words, kindness in

My heart as I understand how you

Must be troubled by delusions! 

What goes around, comes around;

Karma is like a pendulum that

Knows how to keep minutes, 

Sliding first back and then forth! 

Love is in granting freedom and

Accepting your faults; grant me

Life, a life of freedom; not your

Ascerbic, caustic words; abandon

Slavery, give up your blindness

For real hope; make the effort

To be kind or must you always

Be so blind? 

No more violence

As you beat me up and snatch

My only source to love and life, 

Your hand raised yesterday to match 

The pose of the venerable Kali

Gone mad with delusion as you

Beat me black and blue I succumb

Myself to God, filled with many hues. 

I have something you lack, forever

Grumbling you; I have hope amidst

The storm, sailing smoothly on a raft;

I have resilience, something you lack, 

Forever complaining because you

Think I'm daft; but my spirit soothed

By God's eternal love, basking in

His glory, I move the Earth with

My plaintive song, clothed in

Paisleys and averting all wrong;

I seek Justice and a formidable ally

For in God's love I rest and keep

Him forever on my mind; the good

That comes of me is of a selfless

Kind not clamped down by the

Violence of a deluded mind; your

Complaints cease as you release

To God all your worries and

Find good God; God rests in me, 

God rests in you; I see only God

And God everywhere, over the

Oceans, on the seabed, mingling

With fairies, God loves me as equally

As you as God is just and God is kind;

Me the kindest of the lot, God lies

In an equitable mind ; you never

Beat me again, or treat me as a slave, 

Granting me freedom that is

God's solace, God hath spoken, 

Know his wrath; "violence is

Antithecal and counter- productive, 

Abandon violence now!"

I am the tree of life

Just yesterday a few women

Came by and prayed before me;

Today a child approached and

Swung on my branches;

Tomorrow, I know, my roots

Strong, a lover will approach

And engrave her name, hurting me. 

I am the tree of life, no matter

How hardy, tragedy may not but can

Be averted. I sing breezy

Songs under the Sun

And whistle the name

Of God when the wind

Blows; I am the tree of life

Forever offering myself

To humanity; I implore

Man to reject the violence

And kill none, not even me

Because I am the tree of life, 

Forever one with my Maker, 

Forever one with life, 

Forever one with love, 

The eternal tree of life! 

Near Dragongate

I sit and peel vegetables

In a cave of rebirth and

As monumental life

Surges through me

The Dragon in my mother

Arises, spewing fire

And ascerbic words;

I kill the psyche of the

Man, knowing I am

At the entrance of

Dragongate where

All my wishes are

Fulfilled. The man, 

Who yesterday snatched

All hope, who today gives 

Up soap and the Dragon

Across Dragongate lends

Me a rope. I set the vegetables

Aside and cling to the rope

With all my might; for what

Is right is right and what

Is wrong is wrong. I set asleep

In the other world where

Fairies play beneath mushrooms. 

The dragon caresses me

Soothing my wounds as

Life races through me

And my spirit wins;

Sitting inside Dragongate

I vow to build a fortress

Of fortitude, of love and solitude. 

In the morning the Dragon releases me

And my Mother's venom grips

Her heart; home and hearth

Soothes my soul; and I take

The the role of a Dragon in

Body and in mind; the violence

Abates in my Mother as she

Realises the venom she is

Filled with against her maids

And mother and she seeks

Something divine and raises

Her thoughts to the higher mind;

She caresses her wounds, 

Self-inflicted and all and

Vows sweet words as her

Love is lost; I peek inside

Dragongate and foray into uncharted

Territories, travelling the world, 

Keeping mum; Dragongate

Is on Holy Eagle Peak! 

The world's kindest soul

The birds they chirp as the Azaan plays

And I never ever forsake my eternal vow 

To be just and kind and always keep in mind 

That humanity wins any day and violence

Abates to a zero; lunch is prepared and life

Is prosperous as I work hard atop the hills

Singing songs of joyous love, prepared for

The best, averting the worst; as the violence

Abates I swim in the ocean of life, loving

Forever humanity, the world's kindest soul. 

Mara falls down

As I fight Mara in each waking moment

Hubbard draws me close and gives me

A kiss in each moment; psychiatry is over, 

Psychiatry is dead and I walk the ramparts

Golden in hue! Glowing eternally, Mara falls

Down and soon embraces Nam Myoho Renge Kyo! 

We tread mountainous paths and treachery

Is behind us! The warriors who faltered

Hold their heads in their hands: weeping, 

Sorrowful vowing to never abandon

The great vow to eagles, soaring high

At the height of the Sun from andromeda

And up, up away as arrests are made

We chant beautiful songs! Immortality

Is here! Truth prevails, justice prevails, 

The Law prevails for all eternity

As Mara embraces the Law! 

psychiatry is dead

The FIR is lodged;

Psychiatry is dead, 

All pills fed; captives

Leave the hospitals! 

Victory, victory, victory :

Psychiatry is dead! 

I conquer life

As my medicines come down to zero

I conquer life and stay perched on Holy Eagle peak;

The crows caw, the parrots Twitter and the

Birds, heavenly birds take flight! 

I am allowed my privacy along with my true husband, 

And the jam bottles pile up for all eternity

The jam bottles pile up and I am a free bird! 

At nine the document is signed

At ten I'm a free bird! 

No pills for me, no pills at all! 

My ever-sonorous Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo! 

The Last Supper

The last  supper is here at last; 

No violence in the house: all

Psychiatric medicines end! 

No psychiatry at all! Immortality

Graces the Earth! 

I fight Mara

As I fight Mara in my dreams, 

All bills evaded, I shout: Dear

Nature graces the Earth! 

Life prevails  full gusto! 

All evil plans are aborted

For all eternity! The good Law

Prevails and I sit sun-glazed

Atop Macchu Pichu!