ILLUSION

When I hit the sack

and close my eyes

My dream becomes a reality

and my life begins here

I walk hand in hand with the you know who

You know who because you feel it that way

I am swinging around in my mike-o-world

I can feel the crowd thumping

because I am the one giving them all

A million books and a trillion movies,

My counting fails but my want doesn't

My writings sing while my guitar gently weeps

You know how because you feel it that way

The bell screeches beside me

I open my eyes and the clock is ticking

I scurry around for my livelihood

The word ILLUSION glares at me

until I fall asleep again

THE LOSER

Heaps of words

Deafening noise

I got them all

when I took the centre stage.

Not until I saw you among the audience

that I acknowledged them as

accolades and applauses.

I knew you wouldn't come back

wouldn't even turn before leaving me.

Yet I kept waiting everyday

with the bleakest of hope

That atleast for a moment in those years of bliss

you would have read my eyes.

I am a changed man

Dreams, aspirations smother my heart.

Prosperity, fame and no matter what heights I attain,

your memories would keep lurking in a corner of my heart,
thumping harder everyday, that without you

I am a loser

The picture

After a hard day's work under the hot sun as a scientist in the Nalgonda forests, I came home and smothered myself with ice cold water, not even bothering to remove my spectacles. Drained of all the energy, I immediately fell flat on the air couch near by. Fatigue and hunger didn't help my sleep. I lay there like a quadraplegic staring hard at a picture hung just behind and over the television, directly in front of me.

The picture was a ghastly representation of trees somewhere in the Amazon, if I may assume.It had a few lines written in Czech on the top right and a few bloody stripes on the other ends.The dark blue waters that bifurcated the forest looked treacherous in the moon-light.The dark clouds and the reddish background made it sinister-looking.The picture indeed gives a harrowing experience and reveals its avengeful nature.My legs moved convulsively and I fell prostrate on the ground, accidentally pressing the T.V remote on the ground with my thigh. The T.V channels kept flipping owing to my rampant efforts to restore the resting position.I finally steadied myself and so was the channel on T.V. The news bulletin flashed "Wreckage in the Amazon forests due to human greed for scientific progress" .I looked at the bulletin and the picture with bated breath when a sudden burst of transformer outside shut down the power. I was now sitting in a dark room with the glossy Amazon picture being the only visible thing. I edged closer to the picture and tried to feel it with my almost numb fingers.I slid my fingers across various places in the picture and also on the walls around it to reassure myself that I was indeed getting a creepy wet sensation on my fingers.It felt as though the waters from the Amazon picture was flooding my house.I could hear the thunder and the lightning struck as though epitomizing Nature's fury. Doors and windows made a deafening squeaky noise, the bestial wind gushed through my insides and a spiny creature crawled around my neck sending chills down my spine. I scurried backwards like a toddler until my feet found the air couch.I leapt into the air couch, pressed my face as hard as I could against the couch and covered my ears tightly with my hands that I became virtually non existent.Images of me exploiting the forests for scietific progress kept jabbing through my mind.

After what it seemed like ages, I realized that I had fallen asleep.I woke up with renewed energy and tried to decipher what had been going on with me.Fortunately, the power was restored and I stared at the same picture, noticing that it was all quaint and pleasant. I observed that the ceiling had been leaking due to the rains outside giving that creepy watery feeling on the picture. I steadied myself with a coffee and a cigar.My mind had indeed been smoking up hallucinations due to over exhaustion.My cell phone buzzed and it read "Project Anaconda in Amazon !!!" and I grinned broadly as I prepared for my next project.