Just Bits And Bytes It seems so real, the laughter and the fun A world where you feel you’re so in control Moving through that virtual space that’s yours You lose sight that it’s all just bits and bytes You feel you orchestrate your new domain Your friends, your likes, your passions, you’re the one Who can dictate who stays and who goes when So easy to forget ‘tis just bits and bytes When you finally break it down All it is are naughts and strokes Just bits and bytes That’s all it is, dear folks! Finally, just a quick escape An Au Revoir to the reality that binds So caught up in the tangled here and now The fantasy therein is just bits and bytes Yet who says that a parallel universe Can’t be as full of pleasure and the pain The camaradie, laughter and the tears Even though it finally is just bits and bytes. When you finally break it down All it is are naughts and strokes Just bits and bytes That’s all it is, dear folks!
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Just beyond the unseen veil So often when I feel its presence there There's nothing I can do but turn and stare Trying to grasp but usually I fail To reach out just beyond that unseen veil I feel it, sense it, sometimes even breathe In the unknown scents from unknown wreaths If only I'd a ship to board and sail To that strange place beyond the unseen veil Why the longing, oh, my restless soul? The thrill of possibilities unexplored? Or some strange music from a parallel tale The haunting call from beyond the unseen veil The delicious thrill of being so close but not Beyond the unseen veil with mystery is fraught
Twilight Dance I watch the dappled shadows flirt With the evening light, like a dance Set to silent music, The rhythm of romance. Without the shade, would the rays Be tripping this light fantastic? No! And so they play their game Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Their stage is everywhere you look The grass, the leaves, the garden gate The sunset breeze quickens Their movements – it’s getting late. Suddenly, the wrought iron chairs grow dark And seem so bare Bereft of love’s light-stepped tread, now gone No more magic there. Only till tomorrow comes and then The dance of shade and light begins again.
Transient Moments Transient moments in the mind Elusive, fleeting, slipping out of reach Wandering into dreams with a whiff Of something that was Concrete cantatas can never quite rise To be the song the universe sings What must I do to escape this mortal coil And follow that will o’ the wisp to worlds beyond Make whole those fragmented bits of memory That tempt and then slip back Like an eternal siren’s call To a cosmic dance. What wings will take me there To see what I know full well lies within me And somewhere there without I need the wind beneath my wings To take me past the bars of Time.
Perfect Peace
Only when there’s calm and quiet within Can the harmony of perfect peace ring in Only when the storms inside are spent Can the message of universal peace be sent When the heart has billows tossing high Of hate and anger, pride and Mammon’s cry Can the voice of peace e’er dwell therein When raucous clamour drowns its soft reply? We look for peace to enter from without With clarion call and with a victory shout We quite forget that peace is like a spring From out of each heart just a trickle bring And join it all till with a common song Perfect peace like a river will flow along Gathering strength from what each heart pours out More mighty than any army the world rolls out ~ Shalini
