Life goes on, as the cloud of stars pace

Loafering abyss for ions in the galactic race

Life grew on just the day before, on my abode

Lets me grow on to witness the wonder amazed
 
 

 
 

Wake up! It is already time

by K.R.S. Murthy

Good Morning ! How are you this morning ?

Did you have a good night sleep ?

You have your eyelids still closed.

Do you need more sleep !
 
 

Don't be scared, I am not bothering you, I hope !

I always wanted to talk to you, and ask you many things.

At least, I was intending to meet you face to face,

As long as I remember; but, you eluded me all the time.
 
 

No. Not at all. I was in the house, when you locked the door.

In fact, I made sure that the door really got locked.

I told you that it is safe and you may go to bed.

Did you forget, already ! I will always look out for you.
 
 

Look! You should ask yourselves who you are for an answer.

You would never have acted this stupid, if you knew it.

Wake up, my dear self. Stop being what you are.

Talk to yourselves. Ask not who I am, ask yourselves, now on.

Hey Time. will you stop a second !
I can't run with you anymore.
May I please go back to yesterday,
just for a while.
I forgot something important

Up and down,

Twisting and turning one of the twin is to disturb the other twin.
Never call only one by name,
for they are Siamese twins Space - Time,
joined all over.
 

You can stop the space, but the time can not keep idle,

always ticking, never to nap, nor to die
 
 

Forget me not, for I am lonely without you

Highs and lows for all these years with you

Like a shadow, I followed you night and day

Without you with me, I may as well die
 
 

You are the only one I know in full so far

It feels as if you are my reflection in the mirror

Or, my inner voice, whispering commands,

rights and wrongs, without any shame
 
 

I know, the untold promise written in blood

Every drop flowing through the heart and veins

For all the past, and the glorious plans

For the years to come, we made on the day One
 
 

Don't you realize - there is an end
To every thing, big and small,
For that is the edict for all
From the real big power over all

Are you my life ?
I mean, the reason I breath
Or, the life of all the years I had
To cherish the role I played on stage

Are you just an illusion ?
Born out of my mental gymnastics
Product of the brain factory
And no semblance to reality

To be free from me, and the web of my love
If that is what you want any time at all
Alone at last is truly a wish never to come true
For I can release you, free for ever

I will let you free, and freeze the time
Kiss you good bye, the kiss of death
Cherish my love, and live loving the life
For it lasts, only as long as we are in love

 
 

ILLUSIONS OF REALITY

by K.R.S. Murthy

Reflections of the darkness
Soothing melodies in deaf ears
Anticipation of yesterday
Memories of to-morrow
Hard to forget realities of dreams
Mourning of my own death
Gravitational pull of the sky
Hunger in a full stomach
Warmth of my own hug
Rain fall from the oceans to the sky
Fear of my own birth
Celebrations of the pleasures of death
Hatred of falling in love
Eagerness of the lovers' separation
Contentment in emptiness
 
 

Kill Me
By KRS Murthy

Kill me, kill me, kill me right now.
Yes, you may kill me any which way you can
If you can, cut my head into hundred pieces.
And sprinkle my blood all over the town.

I will resurrect into thousand heads
For every drop of blood that drips
Scare you in your dreams, as you are fast asleep
Haunt you day and night, all your life

I am your greed, the inner voice that keeps wanting
I am your jealous thoughts, that bugs you every minute
I am that thought that makes you angry with no reason
I am in your blood that makes it boil, when all else is cool

Do you remember when you were just a kid and innocent ?
When I didn't have a reason to be, but moved in with you
As you were unaware, and growing up like anyone else
Growing up to be worldly, and seduced by its pleasures

You feed me in every bite that you eat, yet never make me full
You soak up my thirst every gulp, yet never quench enough
I know, you pleasure me in so many ways, so many times
Yet, have you realized that I always want more than you give

Don't ever blame me for wanting all the time, all the things, please.
For, the more you give me, I want more than ever to be pleased
Try not to kill me, for I will kill you before I leave you peaceful
He ! Just know that I am the reason that you are human animal

Just leave me alone, and not talk to me any time
Be deaf to what I say, and I may fall into hibernation
Alive but barely alive, in a deep sleep, in my heavenly cave
OK ! Good bye to you my friend, for I am already very sleepy.
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Why does the poem start with words like "kill me",  "sprinkle my blood",
"scare you in your dreams" and "haunt you day and night" ? What do these
expressions really mean ?
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Cocoon Palace

          By: K.R.S. Murthy

          MY love blossom
          seducing with its honey dipped lips
          is hosting your beatitude bee
          with rainbow wings,
          spinning the shiny silky thread
          of your love digest
          reeling around me,
          architecting a cocoon palace.

          No one can see the world within,
          our secret ecstatic world
          built with the bricks of imagination
          Just my fantasy
          incarnating as an artist
          picturing the cocoon palace
          in my mind palette.
 

          Copyright © 1997 K.R.S. Murthy

                                  by: K.R.S. Murthy

 
I have so much to tell you
That I talk to you in solitude
Like a lunatic picturing you
On my side day and night

So sweet you are to me in my world
Of fantasy, that shyness veil falls down
When you pierce my heart with intimacy
That my wildest dreams can not unravel

A sweet knock on the door woke me up from the trance
As I saw you bringing in a fresh breeze in to my ambiance

Enter and brighten the world with in me with a glow
Be assured that you will witness around you a hallow
 

Lighten your heart for the long voyage
Come in my dear, with an open mind

To make up and freeze the mind into a mold
Is like a child very beautiful, yet born dead

An open mind and an open heart can open
The gates to the times we all adore as heaven

I am a bird in a cage,
With clipped wings, flightless,
Stolen from mother nature
Your pet in prison, a pride catch, caught innocent,
A show case among your dead wood furniture.

Conceived in your mind
Between romantic interludes
With clouds of gray and white,
Floating above the roof tops,
Towering over snow clad mountains,
Holding hands as frozen dancers,
Under the boundless blue sky,
With a chilling sensation descend drizzling droplets,
Pouring rain, heavy showers,
Turning into streaming rivers,
Diving down the cliffs, jetting water sprays and misting clouds
To the hungry woods and wetlands,
Trees sheltering the little plants,
And the bees, in love with the flowers.
 

Closed eyes, led by instinct
Inhaled the breeze, fresh, soothing,
Conceived by romance with nature,
I built a fantasy palace of free flight,
Severing alphabet soup shackles
Let loose from the jail of poetictradition,
The rhyme drill, the meter walls,
Feeding the grammar poison, drinking line juice.