Abhey Gupta

Tag: Meaning

  • My Life

    Life turns out to be an endless puzzle —
    an endlessness that cannot be simply solved.
    Simple — it sounds so simple to you;
    and to you I am grateful, in many a verse.

    The voice of life is so full in itself, and unbounded;
    cruel it is, yet always a way toward calm.
    Deaf in so many ways, yet such resounding music —
    rhythmic it beats, with the power of the pure.

    I hope to meet my absolute evil one day,
    and tell him: I am not the same toward life anymore.
    No more regrets to you, no pain of the past —
    living in the moment is all I have now.

    My life now turns to the less-travelled way:
    less hearing, less thinking, but more doing.
    The soul moves my body, once a slave to sorrow —
    for life is a life only by its journey to a destination.

  • If I Am

    If I were a free-flying bird,
    touching the heights of the sky,
    free-falling, then rising again,
    flying higher and higher—

    if I were a snake,
    moving here and there,
    watching for my prey,
    hissing out my bravery—

    if I were a mammal,
    walking and running for food,
    fighting for my own space—
    happiness would still be there.

    But if I am a human being,
    all I do is fool the others;
    greed is the only thing I tend,
    killing another for my pride.

    If I am a human being,
    then I am no longer me—
    I have lost my soul in a world of money,
    and I blame others for my fate.

    So I am no more a human being.

  • Realm of I and We

    I wonder where we are headed next,
    From realm to realm, through hate and devilment.
    A single heartfelt tear, cried long ago,
    With untold, hidden pain—destined to remain so.

    My eyes, lost in deep contemplation,
    I find myself again in the realm of I and we.
    Pretending to be fearless, I donned my masks,
    but, ruled by my own soul, I broke into myself.

    Light is a realm that reveals another realm;
    I opened my eyes to an untold time,
    yet again I found myself—thoughtless, speechless—
    embarking on a journey to know the realm of I and we.

    An illusion that, inside a maze, seems so real;
    darkness is all I see, fear is all I feel.
    I evolved through countless other realms, quixotically,
    and felt it all within me, perpetually.

    Life went on—the same days, the same nights—
    yet I found myself living in the realm of I and we.