Stars

We lay awake nights now
Stars encased in tinted glass
In blinding fog lights
Shadowed under weary eyes

Darkness that brought with it restful sleep
Has permeated through the layers of our mind
Bringing instead a deep unrest
And settled down

Unleash the darkness
Give back the stars
I'd rather have them
In the sky

Edited for Mocaine

We lay awake nights now

Stars encased

in tinted glass

In blinding fog lights

Under my 

skin

Shadowed under 

weary eyes

Darkness come now

Permeate

Through the layers

of my mind

Bringing in

side the deep  

Settle down

Give me back the 

stars, I'd rather 

have them in the 

sky.

That One, the One Mad as Birds

I always think of her when I cross this stretch
A little lost girl with a nest on her head
A nest of wild flowers and humming birds
Playing havoc with her mind
Bursting into flight with her thoughts

On stilts she walks
Looking straight over the heads of crowds
That's the only way they're meant to be seen
Bobbing up and down to the rhythm of her personal background score

Last I heard she'd flown with that flock of hers
I imagine her chirping away
Somewhere on the branch of a gulmohar tree
Perhaps that's the only place to be
And till I see her again
I'll chirp from my verandah
Hoping she hears me.