Shail’s Nest

In the sky float fluffy white clouds
Your answer confuses and beclouds
Can you be more specific and define
Which of them exactly is Cloud Nine?

– Shail Mohan (2008)

Don’t try and fit me into ready-made molds
I don’t come in pre-conceived folds
Did I not tell you I was ‘different’??
Look closely, I am a mutant.

- Shail Mohan (2008)

Hopes and Dreams I piled together
Then with my hands I lit the pyre
Will they like Phoenix rise from the ashes??
Only Love can say, Love alone has the answer.

- Shail Mohan (2009)

Do you miss me as much as I miss you??
When you are away I feel so blue
Blue is the color of the sky
And also the endless sea that stretches between you and I.
- Shail Mohan (2008)

From Thru my eyes

I count the grains of sand on the beach
They stretch as far as my eyes reach
When I am done I will tell you
Just how much I love you…
- Shail Mohan  (Oct 2008)

Destiny’s child I am not

She disowned me for reasons I know not

All I asked of her was love, only love

She shook her head and said, ‘Anything but…’

- Shail Mohan

Your actions so predictably unpredictable

Following patterns you believe are random

You mistake mine for the obvious

Your eyes are weak; they miss the intricate weave.

- Shail Mohan (May 2009)

Jealously guarded behind masks I wear
Feelings I don’t want to share
Transformed when alone into precious pearls
Scattered and lost I know not where.

- Shail Mohan (May 2009)

Reposted from shail-mohan blogs @sulekha.com

You knew all the right codes
To unlock padlocked chests
Exposed, in turns I smolder and shiver
As elements wreak havoc in sweet revenge.

- Shail Mohan ( April 2009)

The love in your heart wrapped carefully
Kept secure in layers of feigned indifference
Let the sun not shine on it nor the rain fall
Love it seems has to be locked as if in a bank vault.

- Shail Mohan (April 2009)