Why?

It started with the movie Schindler's List. Thought it is on IMDB top 250, rated 8.8, must be good. The movie was great, but it blew my mind. Picturisation of Holocaust was so dreadful it caught me on my nerves. And Oskar Schindler despite of his alcoholism and womanizer, became a saint in my eyes. How he risk all his life and hard work for saving 1200 jews touched my heart like anything. The film made me cry, made me think how perfect my living is. In nutshell, I was totally moved by it. As the Talmudic saying "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.", I pondered upon the fact that war has never left humanity. After experiencing two world wars, it is not enough for us to learn that this is it. We still create examples of Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel-Palestine. I wont say further, you ponder on the situation.

Why these boundaries

Why these religions

Why so much restrictions

I wonder Is it a crime to breathe?

Or is it to speak?

Or to eat?

Don't they have a right to live

So what they were war prisoners

Did they become rodents because of it

Does a human life has no importance

Or is it a game of shooting for fun

Cause I find no more humans

Long ago a saint came, rescued them

But now we are again on the same standstill

Where it is a crime to be human

I shall not be a jew, a muslim, a hindu for this

It is just a crime to be born

To expect hope

I and She

She used to come late
I tried hard to be awake
I tried harder
I slept sooner
I woke up
She used to sleep
I wanted to talk
I wanted to hug
I went off
I came back
She came early today
I pretended to sleep
She wanted to talk
But I still slept
She wanted to hug
I continued sleeping
She went off
She used to come late
I used to sleep
She is far now
I can't try hard to be awake
I tried to sleep
and never I got.

Inspired by a scene of 'Saving Private Ryan'

The Namesake

Naming myself, but I ask is that me?

I'm lost somewhere in this sunlight

somewhere in darkness of night

Somewhere in noise of world

somewhere in silence of ocean

Somewhere in wrath of a devil

somewhere in warmth of mother

Somewhere in materialism

somewhere in spritualism

Somewhere in you

somewhere in me

I'm gathering all parts

but don't get a name for me then

I think its better to be lost

so atleast I have a "name"

In parts I have different names

But together still looking for a name for namesake

After reading 'The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri' and watching the movie based on it.