A Solitary Reaper

Thursday, September 23, 2004

"There are times when silence have the loudest words"

At some point of time in our lives we come across a situation where we want to express so many things to someone and then we either get tongue-tied or keep thinking if the words should be said at all. no matter how much of words put together still it feels that words won't do justice to what we wanted to explain. Those are the times when unspoken words speak so much! the color of the sky,the beauties of the moon suddenly starts making sense. I often wish i had someone who would understand me just as the way i understand myself , who'll know me inside out. To whom i could just look at and he'll know what i want to say, is that what you call a soulmate?? have tried explaining so many times , have tried to convey so many thoughts , have tried to show so many feelings have no idea if the feelings got conveyed, if the thoughts ever reached to the soul i tried speaking to , many times! maybe , they were if i believe my soulmate is "a miny me". Still whatever i said,whatever i wrote, no way suffice the way i feel. So i'll stop putting my feelings into words. After all the glory of silence have no words to define...

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

DOWN THE MEMORY LANE...

Love went away from life even before I knew. The thought of a painful dawn made my tears roll down. So many sleepless nights, so many lonely evenings, the mellow tunes and so much of pain drowned my happiness and somehow I got used to live with it. For days it felt that life has suddenly stopped flowing, and the big boulders on my heart made moving ahead in life not difficult but impossible. Old thoughts, old memories kept hitting me time and again and desperately i started seeking solitude. The voice of melancholy, the darkness of tranquility kept haunting me. Even though people say every cloud has a silver lining I knew this cloud had nothing to give me but the rain, the shower of tears taking the pleasures, giving the pain.
But something changed. Suddenly a miracle happened. And the next morning before I knew there was a new dawn waiting at my doorsteps. My heart started beating in the strangest harmony , a tune that has been haunting me in my shallow hours. I found you when I opened my eyes from the world of agony, torture and pain. Felt I was born again when I looked in your eyes. The feeling was ecstatic and from that very moment my life changed, changed in the strangest possible way even I couldn’t anticipate. I was selfish, awkward, hopeless and desperate for love. I needed you helplessly like a mother to a child. There was no love but there was a need, the need that overpowered me…
Eventually there was one day when I woke up and it was as if the magic spells have finally drifted. I found myself just the way I was before. You came into my life like a whiff of fresh air sweeping me off my feet. That time I realized that the needs have vanished, the desires have gone and the desperate hours have left. What was left behind was love, pure and unadulterated by camal desires. The very thought of love shudders me, parting pains me more. With you I saw a new dawn. You held my hands when I was weak and in your little way you gave me the strength to believe in life and love again. You pulled me out from my depths of despair to my heights of glory. I found in you that island of happiness when I was shipwrecked, all alone caught in the middle of the storm. You sheltered me, comforted me. I found my lost paradise in your arms!! But this world is a cruel place and more brutal are the people who stay here. The storm is not over, the clouds will again overcast the sky, there would again be a torrid downpour and waves will again rise and that’s how life goes on…we built castles, we dream of a far away land and mouth several promises. But as the day breaks the castles break down, all dreams are shattered and all promises broken. All that is left behind is our solitudes and we. Dreaming of you in my life would be like building a castle in the air, so I never dream. All I know no matter what happens, no matter whatever upheaval happens there’s always going to be a part of me that’ll live an eternity with you. We will weather the storm; we will bear the heat and one day we’ll perish. But our love for each other will stay forever. Even if we were miles apart my wish, my prayers will always follow you like a shadow.
On this road of love we fall a hundred times but eventually we stand up. We all know life goes on even if it feels it’s over. So for the days for us to come, for the pleasures for us to enjoy let this be the happiest moment, the deepest agony, the most desired desire, the most cherished memories of our lives lived so far. Let the pain be the pleasure, let the tears be the joy, let the desire be the Satan, let the now be the forever, so that one day when these arms are no more there to hold me I can tell myself I HAVE SPENT AND ETERNITY LOVING YOU….

WHEN LOVE KILLS LOVE....

Love and compassion are the basic fundamental needs of mankind. With love follows trust, belief, honesty and loyalty. It’s the compassion and the fraternity that binds the mankind together. It’s amazing how love can change our lives; make us mingle in the strangest harmony we can expect of. It’s the purest of all emotions and the closest to our heart. A few moment in love can make your heart skip a beat or make your pulse rising. Love makes life the sweetest to live for. Some say love is filling one’s soul with the beauties of the night, by the shimmering moonbeams on a lily pond when the fragrant lilies are in full bloom. To others love is more than fanciful dreams it’s a manner of life. All we know love comes in our lives with its blithest hues. We tend to put all our trust and belief on one person we love the most. But if every happiness has a sorrow, every joy has a pain; every fanciful love has a tearful ending. It’s real harsh to know how life at times can be really cruel. The brutality of live is not getting beaten up but lying undead and uncared for and when you know the one person whom you love and care the most stabs right at your back. Love can be fanciful and joyous but the trauma of a broken heart can be more torturous than the worst perils of the world. In our dreams where the wheels of imagination are left to our hands we keep knitting the Penelope’s net and drench ourselves in mad intoxication. Little we realize that someday if those dreams get crushed how painful it will feel. It’s hard to dream and it’s harder to see our dreams getting blown away in the thin air like rock debris blown away by the cruel sand in a rocky desert. What hurts the most is the fear of betrayal, which can make us dead from inside. It’s hard to digest that the person whom we love the most makes us the most miserable! When we feel tormented by a besetting sun, when love comes to us like a thunder lashing in full blast hitting us like a quiver full of sharp arrows flooding our manicured home , we look back haywire in search of a companion who can hold us, protect us from the incessant lashing. But what if then we realize that there is only us weathering the storm! That’s when the biggest question arises. What were the desolation, the pain, and the torture for? And at times we feel embarrassed to admit that it was for someone who broke our heart, who crushed our dreams, who mouthed all the false promises..!!
This is the time we realize that love can be brutal and can be a devastating pain. It’s a torture to witness someone being rude, non-caring, non-affectionate, arrogant and making caustic comments. Knowing that how easily people change and people forget it’s hard at times to say love is the sweetest of all emotions, rather it’s the antithesis- it’s the painful of all. I have learnt one thing in my 23 years of life. Never love anyone madly or give yourself completely to anyone coz the only thing in life which is permanent is “change”! There are people in this world that even if you surrender yourself the return you get is long lectures, sarcastic statements, and selfish expressions. Love and care has no value in life any more. It’s all a give and take world. What you give is never what you get in return. All people are bothered about their own self, their own needs, their own desires. When they have them fulfilled they know how to walk out. The world is full with such selfish people and I say people like that don’t deserve to be loved”. But even though I say a list of long sentences there’s still a soul inside me incapable of being cut, which is proof against fire, impervious to water, and undriable as well. The soul is eternal, omnipresent, immoval, constant and everlasting...

As P.B Shelly says : “ love for a man is his life,
For a woman , it’s her whole existence”

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

The Sounds of Tranquil...

We hardly take time off from this restless world to be with ourselves. There is so much inside of us to explore, there is so much unknown, unseen, unheard things that await that wait inside of us for a vent to voice our thoughts. One of them is tranquility. We are full to the brim with emotions bestowed upon us emotions like love, hate, happiness, jealousy, pain and others. But there is a part of us deep down inside which is shallow which is empty which is alone. Seldom we take time off to be with that part of ourselves. We are all the time so busy running around fighting and struggling for our survival. At times if we glance beyond ourselves, look above the horizon, stare at a petal or a wayside pansy we’ll find there is much to life than just survival. We realize the shallow whole when we are in pain. When some agony rips apart our heart, when the sweetest dreams are lost, and when hopes lie dead. In this dark dismal lonely corner of our heart lie some agonizing memories. An act of betrayal, a scene of horror, or some humiliation. They are wounds, sorrows, festering sores that should be healed closed or cauterize, but continue to haunt. At times when we find ourselves nowhere it’s the time to go back to our tranquil self. There are times when we feel steamrolled by the crushing fists of guilt, deceit and disillusionment, where things don’t always have a perfect ending, where guilt gnaws at one’s peace of mind and one’s confidence wavers. These things can mercilessly rip apart someone’s normalcy. There are times when truth seems stranger than fiction and we hate to admit to honesty. Its that time when we give up and listen to what our heart says. This land of “Eldora do” lies deep inside our heart.
We all go through the trials and tribulations of life. As they say if you didn’t have knocks and disappointments in life, if you haven’t been blooded you are probably not a whole person. It’s the effect of making us little heartless, little cynical, which is all good coz we need that protection. When the Lord of Silence, the Supreme Lord of Desolation infuses in mankind the grandeur of melancholy, the divinity of loneliness, the purity of evil, the paradise of pain there’s still a part of us where hope files and takes shelter. We may fail to snatch a rainbow up on the sky, but we can never stop hoping. Hope is immortal and beautiful and anything that is beautiful can never fade into nothingness, it’s an idea in the mind and as such is not subject to the laws of death and decay, which govern the material universe. What is destroyed is the human capacity of perceiving hope. In the gloom of error, ignorance, and strife which envelopes mankind the human organs of perception are obscured and cannot endure the white radiance of that eternity with which the sublime ideas exist.
So even if the world becomes a spiritually gloomy desert, dark, storm ridden, suffused with mist, we should keep our eyes open to see that arched beyond the mortal sight is the divine light, the eternal ray of hope. So when sorrows hits us hard and our lives becomes a Necropolis cast away by pathos and agony, it’s time to take a closer look at ourselves, listen to our tranquil corner and hope, coz at the end we know in life we can never loose everything, it’s just that we haven’t won it yet….

Here's something i wrote long back for some one special....

The kiss dear love , your lips have left
Shall never pass from time,
Till happier hours restore the gift
Untained back to mine.
I ask no pledge to make me blessed
In gazing all alone,
Nor one memorial for a breast,
Whose thoughts are all your own.
Nor i need to write to tell the tale,
My pen was doubly weak;
Oh!what idle words can explain!
unless the heart could speak?
In day or night, in weal or woe
That hurt no longer free,
My Heart Shall Beat The Love It Cannot Show
And Silent Ache For Thee.....


A Thought...

" When hearts have once mingled,
Love first leaves the well-built nest;
The weak one is singled
To endure what it once possessed"... P.B.Shelly

What exactly is love?just a four letter word?So easy to understand and so damn difficult to decipher?there are million questions that surround that word. Till today humans have failed to explain what exactly we mean when we say we are in love and hence so many poems and so many dramas... where poets have wondered for years and years to find a definition.Human language has a problem to talk about love, whichever form it takes. The deepest love letters and love poetry we can produce always leaves the reader with a feeble image--but at least an image- of the raging fire that spurned the lover to blurt out on paper or sculpture his/her loving passions and longings.
if we consider love to be an emotion then i' d say thats how i always felt till i met someone in my life who actually redefined my whole life's theories. According to him love is a realisation..and yes after spending years of stupid sentiments and emotions i've realised something, love does make you realise lots of things, the true facts of life, the agony and the pain.it's hard to make a decision and it's even harder to stick to the decison we make. More often than not we hear people saying look before you leap,think twice before you do anything so that at the end you don't have any regrets of the decision you took. Well i took couple of decisions based on my instinct , where i listened to my heart than my head, whimsically yes and without thinking twice and now there has come a time when the path i tried so hard to forget snaps back at me, haunting me every single moment, every single hour!!!now that, i have taken the decision what choice do i have?make peace with i have?be happy with what i get?just let myself totally loose , so vulnerable?? well it's easier said than done...at the end of the day we are all humans with emotions that more often than not overpower our feelings.....

Monday, September 20, 2004

The Hidden Truth...

Sometimes life can be pretty confusing. For me the word "sometimes" needs a special defintion...i would say there have been hardly very few times when i have said to myself hey this is so simple...!!maybe i have the nack of twisting and turning every simple matter into complex problems.later on i sit with my hand on my head and try to find out a simple solution to the "so-made" complex problems.Now isn't that fasinating?Sometimes i feel i'm a genious for deciphering the hidden truths even when things are all clear , for trying to understand the hidden meanings of words that probably don't even exist , for always trying to read between the lines!!! I mean think about it, if Life was so simple and straight forward what would be the fun living it??So for the thrill of life think of a zig-zag pebble made road that leads to a crossroad and the crossroad leads to million other roads!!and soon you'll realise your mind is filled with imaginations far beyond expectations,ideas more wicked than you can ever think off.well to honestly say i just nurture the human spirit inside,for people who live their lives as a duty, i add some colors, instead of a new shade of gray maybe a vibrant red!!! and still people complain about me!! aaah... what a weird world!!!!

About Me

Hi i am Bidisha, currently studying in Symbiosis Pune. Since childhood have been in the habbit of writing diaries and so finally decided ( thanks to a great friend!) it's high time i express how i feel to others too...and so the blog came in for my rescue. For most people i am a mentor in their life,for others i am the reason why they live[:)] but if u ask me who am i, i'd say i am a rather complex organic lifeform with a rather small mind, a huge heart overflowing with emotions who wants to live a simple life but lands up always complicating matters...