Mirror

O mighty mirror,
Who never do error,
Reveals inside character,
Gives life a new color;

Seeking for the truth around us,
Searching to the boundaries of mind;
Never we dare to look with close view,
To face the truth or image of us in it.

Reflects our soul to us,
Not mirage of our false hopes;
And us becoming victims and accused,
By judging our-self in frame of reality.

Enter The Dragon

Qualifying IIT JEE 2004 was a big event in my life. And this exam revealed certain character out of me. Now, I was going away from home as a teenager to get experience of college life.

I want to start a new phase in my life by undertaking mechanical engineering as my career in ITBHU, Varanasi. I arrived by Shivganga Express from Kanpur.

Story before counseling: Choosing a seat of Mechanical Eng. in ITBHU was my decision that I will remember for the life time. Till then, I consider IT-BHU equivalent to IIT-K in all aspect and do not care that it has not extra 'I' in its name; I was dreaming that no facility will be lagging and working condition will be extremely professional there. I also left Electrical Eng. for the sake of Mechanical Eng. I was fond and pride of this tough call at that time; But dreams died slowly here.

City was not so good looking as seen from the windows of train. I was not hoping huge expectations from the city. We were received by a bunch of seniors at the railway station. They had volunteered for hospitality to have fun. After waiting for 1 hour, a bus arrives and we were pushed inside a bus which never looks good from the first look. It was a fair welcome from the ITBHU;

When I arrived at Lanka (for god sake who had named this place? He must be native of Srilanka or a distant relative of Raavan); In the bus travel, little was said between us freshers but seniors keep blabbing about the HOLY city Varanasi. I now call it 'hole' city as all good things are drained away by stagnation and orthodoxies;

Arrival at the main gate of university was a anxious moment and seeing the person's statue who had built the university was a charming second of my life. I was thinking that he dream a dream to live up with a dream....

Stand by me

When night is dark,

Silence rules the world.

A chill breeze surrounding you

Alone in woods, just stand by me.

When going gets tough,

Feeling constraint in crowded worlds.

Uncomfortable in passing moments and place,

Beneath the open sky, stand by me.

Not always solitude is blessing,

Sometimes haunting as a curse.

Remember cherishing memories of the past,

Just wish a smile and stand by me.

Curbed by sorrows, lost in gloom

Lights of hope fading in hearts;

Just come to me, refresh your soul

Beside my grave, stand by me.

Redemption

Revive,O! mighty man.

Going nowhere ,but to decay.

Look at the lonely moon,

Having dark patches at its heart,

Shining in the gloomy night

Enlightened your soul with its ray.

Living in downtrodden state

Falling unconsciously from heights

Fading your hopes to rise

Walking to narrow lanes of mistrust

Crawling, crumbling by the hands of greed,

Surrounded by its own long shadows.

On the wings of hope, rise like a phoenix

Burn the past in ashes, row against the hatred.

Start a era with the light of hope.

And open your eyes on new dawn.

Illumination

What a web, life becomes !

Me hanging between two worlds,

One pure work of art

Other a junkyard of materials.

Disillusioned by the senses at this time,

Walking on both the paths.

Poundring the whole heart in one,

And sacrificing mind in another.

Unable to hear voice of soul,

Lying on the banks of hopelessness.

No religion, no friends & no love

So lonely in the crowded world.

Wanting to paint new lines,

On the canvas of dull life.

Arise a sun of light and hope,

Wanna be at horizion of brightness,

To find a path chosen by me only,

Far from rush to way of self-contention.