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Why/When/How?!

Gurleen Kaur

Why did I ever stop believing

In all that’s good in this world?

When did I lose faith

In finding and keeping what’s rightfully mine!

How did I fall out of love

with the process of becoming?

Why did I let disappointments cloud my ray of hope?

When did I lose sight of my future, as bright as the stars I preach.

When did I forget that I’m as ready to take on the world as I will ever be.

How did I not see,

Hope is right around the corner;

Miracles happen without even asking;

And life is as beautiful as it can be.

love

March 30, 2016

Gurleen Kaur

You weren’t an easy goodbye,

But we agreed to disagree,

And knew being apart is how we’ll heal.

I close my eyes and it seems like ages ago

But you know I can still read your mind,

like it was just the day before.

I think of you and smile,

knowing that once upon a time,

You were mine.

I look at you and realise

I did something right.

You weren’t an easy goodbye.

And, though, apart we had to drift,

Our journey was a beautiful gift.

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Found You

Gurleen Kaur

I found you.

When I sat by myself, introspecting,

You were in the reflection of the glass that I was holding.

When I walked the distance in solitary,

You were in the shadow that kept me company.

When the noise all around became overwhelming,

You were the voice in my head that got me going.

 

It was surprisingly easy to spot you in all the hullabaloo,

Once I knew what I was looking for was you.

You’re my confidence, the best part of me.

And against all odds, I found you in me.

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Oasis

Gurleen Kaur

There’s an oasis in front of me

And it looks so promising!

Being far from it is unsettling

Time is of the essence, you see!

There’s hope and wonder in the wait to reach,

There’s thrill and mystery in its trail,

It’s all glitter and it has got me on its chase.

It’s a place as warm as the winter sun,

And cool like the summer breeze.

It’s where I know I’ve got to be,

It’s where I know one day I’ll be!

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Time-bound

Gurleen Kaur

I’m not yet ready for this moment to become a memory but I know I can’t rest.

There’s a greater unknown in the future but I have not even decoded the present.

I’m too slow to move on, too fast to get a hold on my thoughts;

So I’m pausing time in my mind, and trying to memorise everything that make this moment worth living for.

love

Sweet Poison

Gurleen Kaur

You were the moment that took my breath away; but I can’t ask you to stay.

There’s so much I want to hear; but don’t say those words, you make me weak in my knees even when our eyes meet.

 

You’re the dream I still haven’t woken up from,

the one I see even when I’m awake!

 

You’re the beginning to the end that I can’t handle

You’re poison to me but I want to have you anyway!

love

Memory Lane

Gurleen Kaur

When I’ll look back at my life and see you standing next to me, I’ll know I was loved.

And with a smile, I’ll go back to where it all began and find myself all over again, without you.

I’ll feel the places one more time, and let in what I was then too blinded to find.

I’ll trudge the roads that I once measured by how soon they led to you, till they become the paths that I walk to re-discover myself.

There’ll be a faint remembrance in everything I’ll lay my eyes on;

And a fleeting warmth of your presence in the familiar terrains;

But I won’t stop, till I solve my quest to find the best of me.

Because I know I was loved, and you had a piece of me, but I want to get back all of me.

hope

Window Glass

Gurleen Kaur

I sit and stare

through the window glass.

It’s crystal clear,

except it’s not;

there’s a blurring fog.

 

The eyes try to see something

that I still can’t find.

They wander, like aimless travelers,

on paths, near and far,

that seem to lead

somewhere I’m not.

 

I sit and stare.

I’m right where I always was.

Inspire

Meandering Mind

Gurleen Kaur

My mind sets on its own journey,

swimming depths of oceans, enduring sandstorms in lonesome deserts…

My boisterous mind runs faster than me and goes farther than I reach

It pushes me to gather pace and chase it down the unending space…

And then, almost without warning, it stops to reflect.

It wants to see its darkest shades.

The hues of life have faded over time

but left their imprints on the walls, like an ancient decorated shrine.

Springing back in action, it comes alive;

Only this time..

it strolls in the alleys and lanes that had forgotten the color of daylight

It’s seeking answers that are waiting at the end of the mazes that the mind itself designed!