Life follows its own course and navigation,
Stil,l too often we put ourselves at the helm of situation,
Aspiring to be piloting it’s journey,
So often we encounter it’s power of attorney,
Taking over the control and authority,
Turning it into another frustrating story,
Sooner or later it throws the enlightenment,
Telling our position as passengers since it’s advent,
Turning us merely into spectators,
Life itself, is one of the best tutors,
©Sanjay Ranout
The journey of life in simple rhymes,
Filled with curved lines,
Uphills to make it daunting,
Downhills to make it more challenging,
With no clarity of what’s coming next,
It’s pushing us to another test after test,
In quest of straight line,
Proposing and planning it to our kind,
Even Make it more frustrating,
To face those different occurings,
We plan ,
We propose,
We wish it to follow similar course,
But life has its own way to happen,
It smiles and keep us at loggerheads,
To what we think how it should be,
And to how it happen in reality,
In the end ,
Life is life,
Neither it happens as per our propositions,
Nor it respect our plannings,
So get set and be ready,
To Dance to its tunes,
And sing along its melody,,
© Sanjay Ranout
Despite of all those hindrances,
I never looked back,
Despite of all those set backs,
I never regret even at a single instance,
Despite of all those objections,
I never doubted about my heart’s stand,
Despite of all those negative enforcers,
I never let my optimism die,
Despite of all those frustrating moments,
I never doubted the direction i set onto,,
And now there is no reason for all those despites to exist,
And there is no more tussle my conscious is involved in,
Still I never supress my emotions and feelings,
Still I don’t have regrets for all those times of despites,
Still i follow my heart,
Still i allow it to beat harder and harder,
Still i want to follow it’s regime,
Still i want to get lost in its drive,
Still i never oppose it,
Yet always love to resign at its behest,,
©Sanjay Ranout
A Hazy morning,
With hiding and seeking Sun,
Chilling breeze adding to its fun,
Hands are freezing and feet are cold,
Seeking some fire or some heat source,
Suddenly some thoughts jumped out of my core,
Soon they took over all the feelings of cold,
Left me stranded in middle of nowhere lost,
My mind lost itself in those thoughts,
Some pleasant and some sad moments,
I felt shifting of my attention,
From outer chilling waves
To my inner heated up battles,
Of emotions riding ebbs and flow,
Taking rein of my conscious as a whole ,,
©Sanjay Ranout
While the day sets in as usual,
Night will also be similar,
Yet it’s a new beginning for calendar,
With something to start with it ,
Few things to get rid of,
We start new year to have something in it,
With courage to relinquish and strength to accomplish,
I wish it gives you all success in your endeavours,
Thriving through too many ifs and buts,
What if, it had not been !
How has it been,,,
What if, it hadn’t felt those strikes of high tides!
What if, it hadn’t been through extreme crests and troughs!
What if, it had never touched those zeniths and depths!
What if, it hadn’t choked my breath so often!
What if, it hadn’t paced up my heartbeat so often!
What if, those extremes have never occurred!
What if, it hadn’t been so rough ride,
What if, it had never left me looking behind,
What if those scars have never impressed,
What if, that pain have never inseminated,
What if, it had been an easy ride!
Floating on easy tides,
What if, life never had felt so unfair!
What if, i have felt that anyone really cares!
I wouldn’t have felt so much callous,
What if it hadn’t been!
How it has been!!
©Sanjay Ranout
It started with the spring,
Then veered backward to falls,
Shattering dreams with falling leaves,
Then it turned towards stinging winters,
Fallen leaves turning into soil,
Making their existence Fading away with the time,
Taking away along all the hope in line,
Now from nowhere,
They took birth inside those covered layers
And i can see those niping buds,
Though i already accepted those shoved trunks,
Should I be angry or sad!
When i have already started a new life
I think ,
What if i have not given up for little more,
I should have waited some more ,
In the end ,
If i look at years i have waited for,
I just missed it by a brisk,
Now, All i can do is,
Just smile for the fact,
It has got new life after dead,
Sceptical is what the nature of life,
As it travels some unpredictable miles,,
© Sanjay Ranout
Some years ago,
When i used to think a lot,
Purview of my fears has limited scope,
Backed enough with energy and confidence,
Addition to it,
Was Fearless and carefree intent,
Nothing seemed out of my limits,
And imposing limits were quite irritants,
There were the times of highs and lows,
Yet fears of conundrum never made me bow,
Is it same in present too?
Or being more careful and responsible,
Blown away it quite to toes,
Sometimes i wish to test it’s status,
And pass myself thorugh some conundrum’s behest,,,,
© Sanjay Ranout
As i am going through it,
It seems infinite,
Changing its course unconditionally,
Following its own own way,
I doubt if it’s predetermined,
Or just flowing with time,
It’s hard to decipher,
Only thing I can conclude,
Life is an infinite illusion,
We propose first ,
Then we face something different,
We determine something,
And then we feel already determined,
Irrespective of what we think or propose,
It’s infinite illusion,,
© Sanjay Ranout
No matter what happened,
Or what is going to happen,
You were the one ,
Taking tolls of turmoil ,
one after another,
And never let me suspect my faith,
Backed even those rosy imaginations,
No matter what how much unrealistic,
How much weird they were,
How much far from reality of this world,
You kept me floating,
Through those high tides ,
When all ebbs and flows were trying hard,
To drown me ,,
No matter what how much is reality,
Of all the imagined world i could make up,
Still proud of you freak,
You pushed me to limits ,
I could never have imagined to cross,
You set me up for those blind tours,
I made out of all that freaking ideas ,
Of getting away from world,
And that made world out of me,,
No matter what are consequences,
I still have a great proud ,
To follow the freaking path,
U led me through,,
©Sanjay Ranout
What lies beneath our thoughts! 