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No woman no smiles I remember When we used to smoke In the gazebo in my fathers yard Four friends we are (still) Mere boys we were and we brothers be Observing the girls that dance to tale-songs And chat on end under the moonlight About flimsy filigrees and us We made plans To take the world Share it to four empires And rule all our years That was long before We taste the Fruit and see our dreams Follow the stairs into curly air And our paths in a single fate's breath Diverged like ashes in the wind- One gambled, one worked One prayed and loved the gods The other tried substances We found ourselves Ruling no empire nor palaces But in the arms of the simple women who Loved and chatted about us.

Eventually he won That personality, the smiling me The part of me that is a baby That sees with hopeful eyes, won Yes I won yes. My future started when I found myself in this reality show a kind of a big brother house only this time I was the sole contestant in competition with myself. So Every evening at sunset Big brother comes silently And evicts slowly A certain Personality of me Away from the house Never to come back So for days I watched As parts of my person Were being sent off Out of my life Never to come back On the last day It remained only two mes It was the part of me Who carries my past Wherever I go The mule, who cannot see today But through yesterday Colored glasses That got evicted.

It would not be an event If you found riches or fame If you knew pride or shame If you married Jane Or stayed single In the end It becomes most urgent The voices and presence Even the echoes of silence Of those we truly love.

I love the playing fields When no one is playing (on them) I love Sunday evenings and my aloneness The tinge of these grasses on my neck I love I love the green of the young grass and the brown of its dying blades The unwinged creatures that stray on my writing pad, I love I love to sleep here I love these grasses Without a need for reciprocation Without the pain of fear I love I love All because I once loved­­­­- loved too intensely

I HAVE A WISH I have a wish To a bird amongst those these eagles That fly high above I’d fly away, far away to places unknown Perch on ancient trees and watch the sun set on distant lands Live amid the pristine peace of land and air untouched by men; Driven by fears and science I’d live a life of no care for such mundane endearvours that brings pain Sleep in tents and dine with strangers Fly amid the clouds of rain and caress every colour of its rainbow Without a thought of a gold pot I’d live free, wild and easy Soar beyond knowledge known to men And watch their strife with some pity in my eyes.