[Intro](Bright acoustic guitar and orchestral strings) [Verse 1]You started your engine underneath the bright lightsWe navigated the dark through a few heavy nightsYou hit a few bumps on the road from the startWith the allergies, […]
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Chasing You Forever
One college summer, under a sweltering sunI saw the game end before it even begunShe was mid-court magic in a deep red dressThe ball took a bounce, left her in a messI reached for her […]
20th Wedding ANNIVERSARY
A couple’s lasting love journey spans 33 countries, overcoming challenges like illness and the pandemic, ultimately celebrating their daughters as their greatest joy and treasure.
Farewell 2020
Twenty twentyWhat a dent in this centuryGod’s wrath, Hell’s fury,We’ve had enough! Plenty! History repeats, a pandemicThe world frozen in lockdownA new virus, one with a crown,Heroes rose – caregivers and academics. Stranger things happenedMonkeys […]
Home
To feel like you don’t belong, I can’t imagine
To not be able to call a place home, there is no greater wrong
This year let us reach out, join the picket line
And ensure that everyone, does belong.
The heart wants what it wants
How did the heart, a muscle,
Get to be the icon of love?
Is it because above the city’s street bustle
When I see her, it flutters like a dove?
Board of Directors
Part 1 The table at the center, enormous in its role that day One by one men and women took their place Striped suits, pencil skirts, black, navy and gray Their combined wealth of knowledge, […]
A birthday wish
Let me take, “only a minute of your precious time”To take you back, to 1993I was “just an average ordinary everyday kid”When, in Sishya, the principal introduced him to me. Narmada house, blue uniforms in […]
The Lesson of the Forest
Like the forest, I will live and let live,
I will find my path, my purpose,
Take what I need, everything else I will give,
To all others, this ask I propose, in close; in prose.
Children are god: Anika turns 7
7 years ago, our world became brighter A child was born, Anika we called her. It seemed like a miracle, a heavenly gift Until I realized she is my god, a paradigm shift. What is […]
Karthik Raja 