i just NEED a place to LIVE...

a regular day,
i head for my sessions,
i talk to patients,
that's all i do

i take from them,
i give nothing,
i ask Him for forgiveness
cuz i give nothing

she answered my questions
she gave me all details
her mother & her child
she spoke about her LIFE

this illness has caused pain
since ten months for her now
her husband's back in her life
she's not from this town

i asked her for an address
she had nothing to say
getting treated at the country's best hospital
was her only option today

i asked her what do u eat
she said sai baba's temple prasad
i asked her where do u sleep
she said - the footpath...

Miracle

A contemplative mind – Need to clear my HEAD. I start my informal Keyboard class, a friend being a teacher.


Play in legato
It’s all about the flow
Read & play
Don’t just let it go


A note, it’s a sound
You make it pleasing
A life, it’s unsure
Can you make it certain?


The phone rings & she hopes u recognize her & her husband. You try to recollect, she reminds you – to be able to connect.


The talk is simple
My questions – the same
Their life has improved
They have no one to blame


Yet unable to walk
But is able to talk
But what can he say
When life’s yet at bay


Back in time:
He had ignored it,
Thought he’d be fine
Resorted to the alternatives
Didn’t realize the thin line


She took the phone again and spoke, thanked, wished the New Year, shared all that she got & said ‘we had been remembering you since long, very very long.


She said:
I remember what you said
It still lingers in my mind
When I said treatment is the only choice
You said ‘miracle’ is what you would voice


A simple word – MIRACLE, but a divine occurrence & it follows HOPE. Hope – that which got a second glance, a second chance and was out of Pandora’s Box.


A Miracle
Is it for the deserving?
A Miracle
Would be a Life worth living...

Documentation...

A time comes when we are asked to choose, between sour & sweet, between right & wrong, between the devil & the angel, between Life & Death…
When it concerns your life, along with others’ life, its nothing but strife, or is it otherwise???

Specialize in patient care,
That is, if I may dare,
They say there is need,
They now want to pay heed
Get along your experience
In a document form
Get along your 'perseverance'
& share what’s in your palm

Yes it’s an interview,
An open chance for very few,
But the way I view
Its Life kept 'in lieu'

It was a year back, when I saw them, when I spoke to them, when they shared what they had, when they fought with all that they got…

Documentation – that was the word then & the toughest thing to do. Exchange of calls while filling up the proforma, exchange of emotions for those hopeful eyes

Now, a year later I click the ‘search’ button, I type in names…

I realize each call,
They said God did call
They feel it was soon
But they take it as a boon
The pain was in pair
The cause – wasn’t fair

Those thoughts come back, reminding of those times, when we were younger, when we didn’t know much, but they felt connected, they felt assured, and that feeling is what kept going, time passed, life passed, so did we…

Documentation – that was the word then… I feel at what cost, at whose pain, we all were lost, it was a bane…