I am a cipher
You try to decipher
To find your answer
My love, come closer
Take off your glasses
Look deep into my eyes
They hold the keys
That unlocks the codes.
See the wild roses
The haunting demons
The changing seasons
The heart’s reasons
Thorns that prick
What makes me tick
The castles I build
Dreams distilled
Loneliness that chills
Love that fills
Pride that kills
Silence that stills
Captive words
Like caged birds
Useless wings
Mere broken strings
Strange tunes to which I dance
Melody that holds me in a trance
Smoke signals that make me cry
And those that make me fly
The magic carpet I ride
The wind on whom I rely
Cloud nine where I reside
With you eternally by my side.
I jive to a different tune
Different things make me croon
Can you see that different world
That through my eyes lies unfurled?
Can you hear that different song
That thrills as I trill along?
My love… you and I differ
Can you still decipher this cipher?
-Shail Mohan (June 2008)
Reposted from shail-mohan blogs @ sulekha.com
Shail's Nest 
How do manage such consistent rhyming? i love the part about taking off your glasses to find your answer 🙂
Ganga, yeah, those symbolic glasses will have to go, won’t they, to see better?! 🙂 Thanks!
Yeah !! Read it there already…
still no harm in reading again
Good one !!
Bye !!
Hello Sundar! Nice of you to pop over. 🙂
“Captive words
Like caged birds
Useless wings
Mere broken strings”
🙂
Strong, evocative phrases–all alluring, enchanting, beguiling.
My favorite? “Look deep into my eyes” Looking into other people’s eyes, I think, is a bridge with potential delignt at the other end which for whatever reasons many of us do not often take.
Looking into eyes can be magical, can’t it?
Another winner–a poem to stir the heart, the soul, and the imagination.
I like it. Great job.
Bubbly, yeah you chose some lines very close to my heart.
Bob, thanks for the lavish words of appreciation. Eyes I believe reveal a lot. I don’t trust anyone whose laughter do not reach the their eyes.