If enjoyed by heart

When seen from far
They say, things appear more
beautiful than they actually are.
If enjoyed by heart, when found
and observed by eyes which ain't
eying anything else afar
You will find them blissful
and more beautiful than they actually are!!

Excusively of Me

They say how terrible
the day of your death would be
People will keep on talking and
you won't be able to argue back ?
I am happy that at least people
will talk exclusively of me.

Alone we

I asked the Big Banyan tree
standing tall at the end of the road
You know, you may be very great, I said
but you cannot stand against the mightier winds
You would one day be uprooted by the winds
Your dignity and majesty will all be gone!
May be one day, he said ,
I may be no more,
Nor will be there my rich branches ,
Nor will be there any flowers and birds
But all other trees, I do know for sure ,
Will be moaning with me ,
many would even fall with me ,
Birds would weep and pray long for me
I will be rooted out ; but by an Outsider !
I will finally sleep; but in perfect peace
with my loved ones around and sharing the plight!

Had you ?

All exhausted, perspiring heavily
with knees buckling down
I angrily asked the long dark road
Don't you think you are simply
Too long to be walked?
Too horrific to feel any safe,
Too lonely to be any enjoyable
Tell me now, aren't you ?
He just said -
You wouldn't have taken this path at all
Had I been even slightly otherwise,
O dear traveler, Had you ?

Changing notion of patritosim

Who lives if India dies? Who dies if India lives ? Prime minister Pundit Nehru had quoted once. The whole sentence epitomize the deepest patriotic feelings specially the second half. But don't you think there has been a lot of change in the notion of patriotism since then ? Well it may be owing to globalization, lesser moral uprightness (You can debate on this ! ), terrorism , liberalization, vested interest of various countries in other nations and various other things. In fact today patriotism has to defend itself and rather has to assert itself against chauvinism , extremism , separatism and even terrorism .
Over the years don't you feel we have started taking a more liberal stand may be only outwardly, and terms like true patriotic have got a kind of slight derogatory connotations, as you never know when someone will start portraying you as a separatist or chauvinist. The other development which has happened mostly after post liberalization in developing countries is the vested interest of nations in trade and economic policies of other countries , which has led to more and more globalization and this in one way or other has unclenched the once rigid patriotic feeling (though truly justified , Come on we won freedom only because of all those ! ) but as a downstream consequence we somehow have become a blind eye for the mother land and patriotic. And nationalist feelings sometimes even are portrayed as ridiculous.
Though the intentions weren't any sinister behind these developments but increased individuality and chances of success (and survival !) as compared to the time of colonialism when there was a prevailing notion of country first , have somehow shunned us from patriotism. On the other hand the other development which has happened very recently is that a feeling of patriotism is again getting instilled and people are realizing that -to tackle terrorism they have to forgo self interests of theirs and have to do away with aloofness. However it's still more like seeking your interest and good in welfare of country than thinking of country's good first and foremost sacrificing yours even ! Who dies if India (or any country ) lives still has very few takers (very very few in fact )and it seems to be only a golden past now.