Alone

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Heart wishes to welcome back
All those monsters, harmful ghosts
From the days of childhood
To fill my life with some presence!

Hidden behind the doors ajar
Crawling beneath sprawling beds
Lurking in the darkened rooms
They sent once, chills down my spine!

None of them could scare me now
Like these lonesome, somber nights
As I lay staring at silent walls
Interred alone with your memories!

Ashok Krishna

A Face in the Crowd!

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Struggling with the chores one day
I felt a little, lovely thought
Rushing through my heart
Pretty like a face in the crowd
Poetic as the presence in a dream
It filled my soul with bliss and warmth
Yet before I could jot it down
Lost was it like a shooting star

As those faces vanish in the crowd
As dreams go so short-lived
Lost was the thought in mind’s maze
Trying as I am to recall the same
I could sense no sign of success
Unclear and obscure it stays yet
I feel the vestiges of its pure bliss
Like the ripples in a lotus pond!

Ashok Krishna