Seeking present ...

I wondered endlessly about tomorrow until it wheeled to past

I’d wanted to brood over my present too, but it just could never last

I plugged my ears & closed my eyes to commemorate the forgotten

When actually I was only hoping for this pause to somehow shorten

For hours, days and months together I’ve dreaded an imaginary fear

Not knowing what to expect next, yet expecting the worst to appear

Unable to seek the inner light, my dreams have slowly lost their sight

Now I cringe at each call of chance, uncertain about my spirit to fight

Anchored down by inertia and countered by assumptions so strange

I can only wait for that time when things, would simply re-arrange


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'Julley' - My experience in/with Ladakh

Miles and miles of ruminant tranquility & hours together of rutilant snow

Ensconced among esoteric peaks lies an alembic land not many still know

Each young pebble on its riverbed is a passage from a picturesque poetry

Each old grain of sand raised by the byrr, bows before its rugged ancestry

Every night an inky cover, conjures up a million charms from far and wide                                

Only to reveal the marmots and the magpies when the sunrays pull it aside

Adorned by austere ferns and flowers, numinous streams pleached to one

It hails the solitary spirit seeking enlightenment, into its ascetic kingdom

Every smile here is a precious treasure, to be gathered all along your way 

As you tread across this medieval moon land, greeting everyone a ‘Julley’!