TENTH DIARY – Written Words on Passing Pages

Blue & red sky with sun of the eve Soothing sound of birds and breeze Shells with shine blushing on sand Waves from west lulling on land Solitary rocks offering seats And the lighthouse showing ships That's NITK Beach (Lots of memories)

Alone in the crowd My eyes await your return My heart feels, you are close My soul senses your warmth When tears splash I put on sunglasses, Sit on the roadside And look for you, For you may pass one day See me, and hug me once again, Be in love once again

Little parrot, little parrot Who gave you the green glow? Eating guava, eating carrot, Our words, how do you know? Singing songs in my home Swinging sensation on the door Smiling, dancing in the cage Will you join me in a game?

Here lived my forest My people The sacred pond The ghost tree The primeval souls And the totems Then one day They said We must be moved For all to develop Now I see It was a lie A false truth They developed They flourished, We were forgotten

Dear God, I thank thee For the power of words Which you gave us To only us. I thank thee, With the poems A part of your gift Jumbled in an order To honour your creation I thank thee, For this creation.

"Doesn't religion divide nations?" "Nations are new, Religions are ageless" "Isn't religion obsolete?" "Religion is a ferrule which binds when the world is withering away" "Not always!" "But across the borders, Across the nation-states"

In the yellow wood, The road diverged into two And they made different choices

In the long narrow street we met In the long narrow street we kissed But here we are today, On the opposite ends Of the long narrow street