For How Long

For how long can you walk

Before your steps become heavy

For how long can you gaze

Before a weariness descends in your eyes

For how long can you hope

Before your conception falls apart

For how long can you speak

Before you realize the virtue of silence

For how long can you write

Before your words lose their meaning

For how long can you trust

Before the eventual betrayal

For how long can you breathe

Before the futility of existence stares

The long enough

Until the moment arrives

When the past and the future

Merges with the present

Creating a seemingly timeless vortex

Which swallows everything that was human about you

The Forgotten Words

Dejected but standing up with a new zeal, a purpose engulfing me all over again, pushing me to fight for one more time, assuring me that there is plenty of life ahead awaiting to bestow its nectar upon me.

These words were penned down my me almost six years ago, sometime in March 2010, when I failed to qualify KVPY's interview. I was distraught and my naivety led to me to write these words.

Sadly, they are still relevant to me!

Inertia

Driven by desperation

To seek perfection

In least possible action

Is quite a funny notion

To set things in motion

Requires a perfect correlation

Between our thoughts and actions

Coupled with total concentration

And unwavering dedication

To learn Physics

Avoid slips

And be ready to take kicks

At times failure will make you sick

But stay on and stick

Surge ahead while learning new tricks.