Do You Feel the Love?

When your mama brings you food,
Takes care of your needs,
Makes you wear cleanly polished shoes,
Do you feel the love?

When daddy plays ball with you,
Siblings look up to you,
Grandma packs you sweets, and when Grandpa teases you,
Do you feel the love?

Your best friend scolds you,
When you're about to fall, the stranger that holds you,
The old beggar you helped, when he blesses you,
Do you feel the love?

When you chase unknown ppl,
Whilst you neglect the ones you loved the first.
Forget the very first definition of love taught to us.
Why do you not see the love?

When war breaks out, the soldiers that help us.
Natural calamities, the relief that finds us.
Blessed souls who voluntarily better society,
Can you feel the love?

The sects that come together,
In times of disparity.
The incapacity of the governments,
That unites the various strata of economy.
When strength to bring change and hope in us beckons,
In matters that shake humanity,
This is where it is,
All the Love.


Explanatory: When people say there's no love left in this world, look closely. Maybe your idea of what love is, is  limited.

Article for "Life Beyond Numbers"

I've written an article for the website: www.lifebeyondnumbers.com
It's about how one destroys the joys of the present time by pondering over the past or anticipating the future.

You can read it here: http://bit.ly/15Fuczm

bRoKeN

Broken Bricks,
Broken stones,
Someone came, Broke that home.

Broken pencils,
Broken Toy,
I wonder who hit that li'l boy.

Broken strings,
Broken dreams,
Broken Wish of seeing what the eyes please.

Broken trust,
Words have bitten the dust,
We no longer believe anything, scared much.

Broken hearts,
Broken voices
Going ahead with life, living someone else's choices.

Broken soul,
Broken life....
Thrown into the hot-end furnaces with self conflicts rife.

Broken peace that eventually broke the World..
Nobody to love, no hand to hold.

With treachery and despair, everywhere.
These broken pieces will make us tear,
The relations, the humanity, and all that we care.

The human race will have to stand up together,
Because this one world,
That We all Share.

You Say You're Bad With Dates.

You say you're bad with remembering dates.
You forget birthdays,
You forget your anniversary,
You forget all about the kid's 1st party.

You say you're bad with dates,
But you remember exactly the day,
When the best teams against each other will play.
You await the day of release of the EPIC movie.
You will remember the day Sachin scored his 100Th century.

You say you're bad with dates,
But you remember exactly the day your posting ends,
That the day of the exam is not far,
About your important seminar,
Or that appointment for the servicing of the car.

Its not that you're bad with dates.
It’s just that you don’t put in the effort it takes,
To register a date as IMPORTANT,
To wish them the best, give them the time it takes.

All I’m saying is that you're not bad with dates;
You just haven't really prioritized what all is at stake.
Learn now, before it gets too late.


-B.R

The Girlfriend, The Troublemaker?

I've had quite a few guy friends, whom i used to love to hang out with. We used to have the greatest of times together, as a gang, as just the two of us. I was also aware of the fact that all of them at that time, were single, and more than ready to mingle.
I've known a few instances where they've tried, and failed, and tried again. And failed again! :-(
It just seemed that nobody wanted their heart, which they were readily offering, on their sleeves.
So after a lot of these rejections, one is bound to become a little desperate for love. That's exactly what happened with my heroes.
They found a girl, who reciprocated their feelings (maybe even in the smallest possible way) they took the plunge.
Frankly speaking, these girls do not deserve my friends.And I'm not saying it because they're my friends and we tend to scrutinise their every move, but genuinely. These girls are not approved by any of us gang members (we have our reasons :P , and trust me, they're not lame.)Frankly, my boys could've done better.
The real problem arises, when these not so good for the boy girls start feeding the boy crap about how we do not deserve to be his friends!
See, this exact point might not be true, because it isn't proven that the girls do that. But, the way the boys' behaviour changes towards us, one can't help but wonder if this new girl is turning our friends against us.
Hanging out with 'just friends' becomes a difficult task because the girlfriend is dragged around everywhere. And it wouldn't have been a problem, the more the merrier, if only they wouldn't cuddle up in one corner in their own li'l hood, completely ignoring us and at the same time making us feel bad of disturbing them in their 'couply' time.
Either way, the friends lose.
The ideal girlfriend would be the one who'd make her space in the group, not by force of course, but by her interest in us, and wanting to be our friend, for whatever reasons*wink*.
This type of girlfriend is definitely welcome in our group!
At the end of this all, I've nothing to say to the girlfriends, because frankly, I hardly know y'all. But its the boys who need to open their eyes and realise, that its us friends that have always got your back.
God forbid if things don't work out between you two, your friends are the ones who'll help you get over her. Fall in love, but don't fall out with your friends.

What I'm saying, is I like to see people in love, but I hate it when I lose my friendships to it.

[P.S. I had written this post when I was losing my guy friends to their new found lovers, but I cannot ignore the fact that lately a few of my long time single girlfriends have also found love, and they're also taking the exact same course we friends dread. So everyone out there guilty of stealing my friends away....*sigh* don't take 'em awayyy :'( ]