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