solitaire

as I play solitaire with life
people ask me again and again
think where you are going!
think where you are heading!

People ask me again and again
to live life like everyone else.
think where you are heading!
people cant live life alone!

to live life like everyone else
is it that’s what all is about?
people cant live life alone!
is that really the golden rule?

is it that’s what all is about?
to live life with another?
is that really the golden rule?
even when we hate each other?

to live life with another?
and regretting every second!
even when we hate each other?
well I prefer playing solitaire.!

Sharmishtha basu
1.1.10

Single and happy

Another pair of eyes
Looking at me with pity
A part of my heart fumes
The other half smiles.

She is someone who claims
Her life is ruined, destroyed
As she has fallen in the hands
Of a drunkard, a corrupt man.

She looks at me and says,
“We both are ruined, destroyed.”
“I fell in the hands of a beast.”
“You could not find any one for you.”

I firmly say to her,
“Sorry I can’t agree with you.”
“I didn’t find someone
for I didn’t wanted to.”

“You count yourself as destroyed”
“Think whatever suits you.”
“But please don’t try to think
I am because I am happier than most of you.”

“I live like a queen free and happy
I don’t have any chains around my body, soul,
Above all my spirit is free
So how can I think my life is a waste?”

“I do what I want to
I live the way I love to
I act the way I yearn to
So I certainly am not destroyed.”

“I wake up and sleep when I want to
I dress up the way I want
I eat what I want; I drink what I want,
I am the queen of my life- not exactly ruined.”

Single

Single means
Single
Not alone
Not incomplete
Not failure
Not rejected
And certainly
Not ready to mingle.

Single means one
Not zero
It may hold another hand
And become two
Or it may stay as one
Happy and free
Settling mother nature’s score
For overburdening her.