Fugacious Innocence

Sleep on my child the night is young,

The wind gently fans your face..

There's no care or worry in your heart,

To tempt and steal you away.

No chores to finish and labour over,

No unfinished dreams at hand..

Not even unmade plans of life,

Or care for what tomorrow brings.

Sleep on, oh my innocent child,

I'm here to shield your world..

Dont grow up before your time,

Live on in the glory of fun.

24/09/2013

About Regrets

You can live your life with regrets

Creeping up your back

Filling up your throat

And clawing out your eyes

You can live with regret

That drives you insane

That makes you question

And that haunts your nights

You can live with regret

Running around in circles

With what if and what nots

The ifs and buts and whys

But time doesn’t stop

You keep losing moments

With regrets that keep you in the past

Forgetting the precious present

Happiness wont chase you always

Choices wont knock your door

Chances wont be up forever

The other door may close

And you have to move on

Swallow the regrets

Swallow the lump of hurt in your throat

And leave the memories behind

Grab the chance for new memories

A fresh start, a new chapter

For a life filled with no regrets

Just do it, carpe diem

© Dipti Agarwal

25/10/2012

Coin Flip

The dreams the nightmares
And the heart wishes
All get hopelessly enmeshed
But what keeps u awake at night
The good, hopes or the fright

The confrontation the evasion
And the escapes
All out there tantalising
But what is finally dealt in life
Soft rosiness or reality checks

Life is dealing an empty hand
Other times a golden bounty
Sometimes ur pillow has salty wetness
And sometimes the music carries u thru.

Of paintings and reveries

Would that I could-
Paint the brightest picture tonight
All in black and white.

And maybe some hues-
Of more than 50 shades of grey
Given life by the moonlight gone astray.

And of the wind-
That makes the dark trees dance and sway
Singing in my hair, carrying me away.

To some romantic place-
Where You live life, laugh and cry
With hands that hold, loving and kind.

What is fear

Not that of the dark
But the black empty night
Or the sudden rush of light that shuts your eyes
Or still, the stark stranger of truth
Not clad in black nor in white
And in his eyes, you see what you want.

Or is it fear
When the spiral goes downwards steady
Your fingers clutching at air
Or yet, those same fingers
Jump up to touch the glimpse of a dream
And both visions vanish in the puff of a smoke

But fear truly is
When you miss a sure step on the stair
When you look at the mirror and forget urself
When you lie awake and think nothing
When the ghosts of the pasts haunt you
And yet somehow, the totem keeps on spinning

Being You

Sometimes you look, but don’t see
A smoky cloud dulling your vision,
But what you do see is a light
That is coming from inside of you.

A fire to light the passion
A beat to liven the music,
A colour to brighten the horizon
A thought to lead your life.

Follow the inner light
Follow the guiding passion,
Live & lead your own life
Not pulled by a carrot from others.


© Dipti Agarwal
19/07/2012

Rented Reality

There is a red sky out tonight,
The clouds breaking the blue,
The stars are reading your destiny
And aeons past seeing the naked moon.

The words slide up my throat,
As strange thoughts fill the mind,
Some morbid fascinations are abound
And fantasy leads to the dreams tonight.

But the night is heavy with heart,
As the borrowed vision opens my eyes,
Every breath takes in the rented wind
To win this life, or to die.


Dipti Agarwal
04/07/2012