THE TRAVELLING BARD

The Travelling Bard

I’m an ancient traveler

I’ve travelled far and long

Distant dreams, I’ve had

Of my music’s day

How many songs I’ve sung

I can’t start to count now

How many cheerful faces

I could quite easily tell

I am a travelling bard

I’ve sung songs on courage

I’ve sung of devotion

Stopping only for a night’s rest

I wake up to cheerful smiles

Of people who walk by

The tree by which I slumber

I’m a pathetic fool

I laugh at all my losses

I play for similar fools

I eat raw berries and roots

I drink fresh water too

Every year grows old

And so do I

But I’m never tired

After a good day’s work

I’m paid wages in smiles

I live on holy mother earth

Home is wherever I stay

I teach those who call my name

I’m a happy soul

I’ve got no reason to lie

I’m always happy

When life’s this simple to live

I walked all night and day

I rest only when company

Does come along my way

It’s truthful to say

I talk of peace wherever I go

True to my word it does snow

Every season I conjure

With my music’s play

HARDENED

Hardened

I am a blank slate

I get written on everyday

Sometimes with science or math

Sometimes someone’s wrath

I try to seek what I am

Lost in this place where I don’t belong

My life lacks meaning and direction

But I won’t stand to complain

I will take what is given to me

Will do ok, with all conditions

I have friends to look after

I can’t just sit and stare

My skills are all broken

My mind mingled with something else

I’m a tired and hungry soul

All I can do now is walk

I won’t stand in this place

Sit down to tie my lace

I would rather run barefoot

Till Mr. Fate comes for a meet

My mind can’t stand dejection

I have not yet faced rejection

I have creepy sloppy manners

Which you can never understand

I am a social outcast

Yet I won’t finish last

I’ll race you till the end

My resolutions can’t be bent 

THE FEARLESS MAN

The Fearless Man

 Sweet sugar double time

Work all night, stay out long

Describing my life will take a song

My voice is not so strong

You know, I could try

My throat is quite dry

My legs cry out in pain

I know all my work is in vain

Yeah, I won’t give up

I’ll try even harder

Taking shit from you

I get even madder

You are a sad, sad man

Your anger I can understand

Don’t try to act too cool

I’ve seen the way you drool

Spinning the choice as always

You never answer any queries

Of late, I’ve come to realize

You’re not quite my size

Your eyes are like week old curds

Your words slip past some nerds

You played the same song today

Yeah, I know you’re pretty gay

Don’t shout loud at me

I’m what I can be

I won’t stammer in mortal fear

Even when you’re standing quite near

I’m not worried of getting fired

I’m pretty sure you can try

Don’t look at me in dismay

You can’t change my ways

PEACE

Peace

When the early bird chirps

Wind blows across the tulips

Bees in search of nectar

Its morning on my lips

A new day dawns, everybody’s awake

Cakes put in ovens to bake

People out for fresh air

Even the old stop to glare

This moment of true peace

This exists everywhere

Waking eyes start to smile

Close your eyes for a while

Nothing can ruin this moment

No exams will come and go

The fog that covers us all

Disappears to return this fall

Baby girl starts to cry

Mammy makes paysam with rice

Every deity is praised by all

For giving this morning day

Time folds, sevenfold grows old

The joy of this moment is not spared

The sun comes flaring at us all

Time to toil, all day and boil

THE KILLER

The Killer

I’ve won all my battles

Too many wars I’ve won

No enemy still remains

Who can challenge my vengeance

Despite all that I’ve achieved

I’m still a commoner

I’ve wasted a million

But haven’t earned a dime

Killing can’t be a profession

But yet it is so for me

I take great pleasure in it

You can’t be alive to see

Every plan is executed

To perfection all alone

No other alternative

I’ve ever achieved

My winnings are unseen

My modest behavior

Just a coloured drape

Beneath I lie in wait

My justice sound to me

My witness not alive to tell

There are no compromises

No one can never tell

In silence I exist

In sound I execute

In a moment of panic

You’re dead on your feet

My job is satisfaction

A human life a mere pawn

I live no all alone

I do have a family to see

PLAIN AND SIMPLE

Plain And Simple

It’s too late now

For us to do over

What you’ve done

Cannot be changed

When it was noon

I searched for a moon

That glows all day

She was on her way

I waited for it to set

The dusk would surely tell

My mind meddled with me

Said I could never see

But lo! I saw you come

Your radiance lights up a path

From a long distance I could tell

That the light was all just you

You have come to deliver

 Me and my rotten soul

It has been plunged upon

By many a stranger’s spear

You are my towering conscience

You are my tangled road

My faith in you is always paid

A several hundred fold

You don’t blurt out excuses

You know I care for none

I’m just happy to see you here

I close that dark door

In times of peril you come to me

You display courage and entropy

You too can be destroyed

But that will never come to be

Your heart is your weakness

And I’m the cause for it

You care too much to tell

But I can plainly see

Across realms of mountains

Across the mighty oceans

In an island on the pacific

That’s where I want to be

You fear that I’ll leave

You fear dying from it

But my ways are my own

That’s where I stand today

So now I’ve waited for you

For hours and hours more

Now that I can see you come

bacio me il mio amore

Now I must tell

What I’ve decided

I won’t stand around

To see you cry

My journey has just begun

You already are my prize

But I refuse to accept you

My life filled with my dues

Your face is pale

Your glow not so bold

Your lips seem so dry

I can see that you’ve cried

My lips start to stammer

What could I ever say?

I had a speech prepared

It was lost along the way

This moment may somehow pass

I just have to react very fast

If I stay to pity for you now

My life will sink down low

Sorry baby, I must take leave

Don’t cry, it not very you

We are separated by boundaries

Which are quite intangible

You and I

No matter how perfect

We can never be

I can’t seem to see

I will go now, forever

You must let me leave

I won’t return, ever

As you can plainly see

BEAUTY QUEEN

Beauty Queen

She acts nice, but it’s all just lies

Her heart is not solid and pure

Her eyes light up at your stupid jokes

As if she didn’t know of how to mope

You’ve smiled at every single man

You were the queen of the world

You humoured only a few and some

Only those you wanted to take home

This is your future, vile woman

Look at what you’ve become

You mistook beauty for character

And assumed you had much of both

Your best friends did try to warn you

They even tried to change you

You were a back then

But look who’s laughing now

You laughed aloud so loud

I have been so told

You were pretty once, for a while

But that’s all gone for long now

Now you sit in a rocking chair

You just sit and you stare

At the empty house you live in

At the emptiness you took in

You’ve stayed up late

Flirted with many a mate

Your good friends always plead

But you wanted second base

The curse of your frivolous life

Is this day and many more to come

You beauty is lost forever

You will live life the same

When you had to learn

You appointed someone else

He did all your work for you

Tried to teach you concepts new

But you always did keep him

At an arm’s length and smiled

He took your lying smiles

As acceptance for a while

But when you went out

With someone he knew

He sat dejected for a while

Then he learnt life, from your smile

Your easy going life

Has brought you here

It’s too late to change

You’ve already lost your ways

Now people you once knew

Stare from beyond the windows

They sadly nod to themselves

And take this as a lesson learnt

Your fancy clothes, now stained and torn

Your envious looks are forever gone

Dejected you sit and stay all alone

None, but none heard your painful moans

THE BUM

The Bum

 I’m a bum

I have no one

Not literally

But just miss someone

I was once a happy and a free man

I had a lot of respect for myself

I attended several classes

Learnt sciences necessary to survive

Lady, why did you ever see me

All I wanted was to secretly gaze

I found out, even you wanted to do the same

What you ever saw in me, I can’t understand

I was wounded by my own passion

I slithered back to the grave

I laid in wait for you to leave

Many a generation passed me by

I came back, only to find you,

Waiting for me as you always do

Your hair covered your pale face

It seemed like you were in tears

Please don’t cry, my fair maiden

I was just scared that you’ll leave me

My heart just wasn’t ready to see

It couldn't bear see you desert me

You are so very perfect

Your skin all so vibrant

I touch you by mistake

My heart sinks back to the grave

Your eyes are always in search of me

Even when I’m hidden, where you can’t see

You restlessly try to search for me

Before you finally compromise

I can’t stand to see you dejected

But I’m no good for you

I’m just a stupid, stupid chump

My longing for you yet starts to trump

I stand by in the shadows

Awaiting your arrival

Your fragrance intimates me

Of your lovely presence

I inch closer to where you stand

You are surrounded by your friends

You always talk of someone else

I laugh at all your silly ways

You are so pure, I can’t bear

How can I ever provide for you?

When I finally get through to you

Please let me stay only for a while

I’ll stare as you smile

You may avoid my glance

But I’ll never miss yours

Take care