With my lenses on

I lie to myself

That I am not going to sleep

That it is just a 'closing of eyes'

And thus I lie down on the bed

At night, with my lenses on

I tell my eyes

Oh you are safe

I am going to wash you soon

After removing the lenses

But not now, with them on

I tell the Micromax Data USB

That I will just be back

To the uploaded world
To molest the laptop

With my lenses on

I wink at the tube-light

Oh I will indeed switch you off

But that will be when 

I no more need to see

With my lenses not on

I whisper to the pillow

To wake me up with a silent alarm

May be an ant bite or that of a mosquito

So that I do not sleep the night

With my lenses on

I do not keep my cell-phone 

In my hand's reach, oh why should I?

If it rings, that is, 

I will wake up and spot it

With those lenses still on

That story book is at my side

Lest I get bored of 'closing my eyes'

And look for interesting stuff

In the story lines

With my lenses reading them on

I look at the clock's face

Trusting it to yell at me

And make an angry frown

To stop me from dreaming

With my lenses on

But I happen to 'close my eyes'

And smile inside

Knowing very well

That I am looking forward to sleep

For hours with my lenses on

But, sometime later on

And it's not the cell-phone, or the clock

Or the boredom, or the pillow

But I do wake up

With my lenses safely on

I wobble towards the lens holder

Practice the ritual of taking them off

And washing them in some magic

So that I can go back to my life

In a few hours, with my lenses newly on

Reconciliation

My mind's like this precious page

I keep cleaning it from negative thoughts

I guess that's the biggest of all battles I fight

Every moment, every nano second

It is easy to be unaware of what's bothering me

But I got to have it in my hands

A worry, a complex, a fear, an anticipation

There are just too many things that can haunt you

Most importantly, being undisturbed by what's happening

To whom it is happening and why it is happening

Sometimes, thinking, trying to find reasons of that which is and that which is not

It is such a hard task to just be, at peace with oneself

'Negativity', it can come from anywhere,

From those you listen to intently, those you believe in,

As well as from your own mind, your very treacherous brain,

Always trying to fool you into travelling to a world of doubt and hesitation

I have realized, that as people mature, become wiser, and evolve

Their problems do not simplify or become tinier

Instead, they become more challenging and more insidious

Everything in this world constantly becomes better and man is expected to do the same

So if you do 10 crunches on Monday, you are expected to do 12 the next

If you don't you are not in line with this world

You are stagnant, if you are not moving forward, you are moving backward

That's why it is said, may be; that as you grow big, battles grow bigger too

You have to have the vision to fathom their size, to recognize...