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102 · Feb 2022
DOUBLE WHAMMY
KV Srikanth Feb 2022
Constant change evident
Change constant possible
Constant change impossible to predict
Change constant statistical nightmare
Thinking linear always surprised
Logical conclusion not always delivered

Predicting and planning
No axis to revolve around
Nothing to follow
Go with the flow

Double whammy served
Intellect often snubbed
Bruised ego remains
Following a fixed routine

Only the now
Truth to behold
Past null and void
Future never real

Living in the present
No decision taken
Life into a description
A new permutation not foreseen

Unpredictable in its core
Predictable anything may show
Wake up next day
Only the present is here to stay
102 · Feb 2021
MOMENTS
KV Srikanth Feb 2021
Moments make the day
Solitude or Isolate
Dusk brings closer
To meet your maker

Moments make the night
In the harmony of company
Dawn one dusk less
Already defined
Finite life

Dreadful in definition
war with your own skin
Constantly in Geometry
Peace in Symmetry

Moments make life
Fleeting  Glaring
Happy Gloomy
Lonely Conversly
War Peace
Strife Truce
Moments empty
Filled with these
Moments full
Filled with these

Contradiction in Similarity
That's life In its beauty
Teacher or Prescription
Lesson in definition
Living the moment
Cut the first turf
Pave the way
Nobel in Norway

Medley of Moments
Designated Experience
Vary to Many
Life's Graduation
Given without Convocation
Pay it forward
Lies the reward

Time Goes By
We go along
Alliance in Union
Discord in Division
Moments gone by
Time and I
Together swing by
Equal Partners
We are not
Travels till my destiny
Continues on it's own Journey
102 · Jan 2022
52
KV Srikanth Jan 2022
52
Way to live
Cards given at birth
A new place this universe
Mother's womb no more the place

Time runs out then
Clock starts ticking when
In the cradle unable to recall
We have survived it after all

The shuffling starts
Each dealt a different card
Same card  game played by all
Match up or Give up winner take all

Some progress Some stagnate
Some still figuring what to play
Can't escape playing your card
Opting out not a choice

Upbringing Education Companionship
Lessons thought by parents
Pages of knowledge of events
Which card to pick apparently taught

A game of intelligence
But the house holds the pack
Pick out of 52
Outcome decides the life you pursue

Luck plays a part
Picking the card your choice
The pile to pick from decided by the dealer
Limits potential as options closing in further

A game of poker
Handed a couple
Placing bets hoping to double
Faith in play hoping the next 3 will be favorable

Not the only one
At the table counting
Hoping you got the best hand
And the rest wanting it beforehand

Still kept in the dark
3 more still wearing a mask
Increase or bail out difficult task
The house has decided your odds

Value given to every card
The ones you hold sets you apart
The 3 on the table turned
Decides whether you won or lost

The 2 you hold
You have no choice
The 3 on the table follow the path
Deciding to continue your decision
Figuring out the competition your intelligence

Figuring out the game
Takes an entire lifetime
Some ride the wave
Winning the stakes

Some never understand
When to show the hand
Everyone getting a royal flush
Where and what did i miss

Flush kind and  pair
House high or straight
Varities at the table
Some don't get em at all

Choice of Action
Nature's predetermination
Action also predetermined
Philosophers knowledge to extend

Lucky to take part
Whatever be the draw
Win loose or draw
Process matters never withdraw
102 · Feb 2021
GRATITUDE
KV Srikanth Feb 2021
Pleasant past
Rewarded Appropriately
Karma knocked
Lessons learnt
Wisdom gained
Nothing outside
Acceptance inside
Happy with your own hide

Today in the now
Challenges in a row
Chaotic in nature
Wear it on your heart
Listen to its beat
Illuminates the path
Weans away the Sour Note
Remains the Note
Synchronize and Harmonize
Freedom the instrument

Future only in thought
In time a mere fallacy
Instrument you tuned
Worthy to succeed
Ambition to Reality
Converted in the Symphony
The instrument you tuned to harmony

Now becomes past
Play the record sans
Rewind or forward or pause
Listen to your song
Answers within  all along
102 · Aug 2021
GUNS
KV Srikanth Aug 2021
Seen it in the movies
Action genres motif
Six shooters fired
At those who deserved

A quick draw
Fun to watch
Faster on the draw
Earned audience applause

Winchester 73 in the Westerns
Walther PPK in the James Bond Adventures
The 44 Magnum in the Eastwood actioners
Colt 45 part of Randolph Scott's attire

Gave me fun and entertainment
Knew it was not real
Still gave the excitement
Used artistically in posters

Smoke coming out of the barrels
Tag lines using the Bullets
Target through the telescope
Made you want to buy the tickets and go

One liners with pistols
Pointed at strangers
High point of the pictures
Never fails to make you feel better

Surround sound echoing the firing
Making it real and exciting
Methods of putting it back in the Holster
We can only imagine and wonder
101 · Mar 2022
BROTHERS AND SISTERS
KV Srikanth Mar 2022
Brothers and sisters
Braving the hostility
War in your backyard
You didn't ask for
Biting the bullet
With all your courage
What can I say for your loss
Sorry won't take me far
I pray from deep within my heart
Enough if being used as pawns
I bow to your armed forces
Taking on all the might
That takes a lot more courage
Alone taking on the opponents barrage
I can't share your grief
But i understand it totally
101 · Mar 2022
SKIPS
KV Srikanth Mar 2022
Thinking of you
My heart skips
Images of your face
Forever before my eyes remain
100 million dollar smile
How did i put a price?
Days pass without a message
Surprisingly i feel relieved not sad
Hope the status quo remains
Missing you badly
At peace missing you
Irony in my thoughts
Over time i realise
it was clarity
As the gaps proved
My heart approved
Predicting an interval
In our daily conversations
Would not last forever
Ego boosted that i thought correct
Patted meself on my back
With my palm intact
Creating the required impact
Ratifying the feeling that I'm always right
So much that even the wrong feels right
Is a high higher than the high i get when we spoke day and night
101 · May 2022
TRAFFIC
KV Srikanth May 2022
Heart in wilderness
Yearning for company
Thoughts stuck in
Traffic
Each blocking the other
No escape route
In search of a detour
Each traveling the distance
Extrapolating to fictional conclusions
Thoughts never tire
Continues its rollercoaster
Memory the striker
Hitting each other
Unlike the board game
The coins remain the same
In this.never ending game
Only one player to name
Awake and Its on
Sleep the dream switches on
Half asleep it wanders on
Half awake it meanders on
A place to hide
From my thoughts
Only thoughts decide
Playing cops and robbers
Here both wear the same number
101 · Apr 2022
MY FAMILY
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
Intensity of affection
As deep as the Ocean
In the line of fire
Look back and there is
A brother or a sister
Standing in line prior

All descendants of
A common ancestor
Sons and daughters
Of brothers and sisters

Childhood spent together
Memorable moments a treasure
Crisis and agony endured
Trouble for one face it as one

Difference of opinion
Occurance most common
Cracks in relationships
Common and relatable

Natural to differ
That's nature's order
Something is out of order
If everything is in order

Strain of the dispute
Taking its toll
Communication the first victim
Distance the result

Does not give pleasure
Only makes one wonder
If it is worth the pressure
Time to take measures

Tragedy or calamity
Brings all under
One roof to ponder
How to tackle the intruder

Family values though by the elders of the house
Foundation laid strong
Value systems where they should belong

Greatest learning in the house
Lessons learnt from each other
Mother father no different to each other
Sense of oneness no one can teach better


Coming together inspite
At odds with each other
Pushed to the corner
Face us together

Times have changed
Families have grown
Independent on their own
Comfortable in their zone

All had mentors
Uncle's and brothers
Who shared their knowledge
Made life easier to tackle

A lifeline and an anchor
Provided when needed
All get together
Gods answer to the prayers

Our family is special
Oneness its Core
Whatever might have transpired
Value systems remain unchanged

In times of difficulty
There is no other place I'll be
In times of making merry
No other place I'd record in my memory
Just to be together
No other place I'll let the clock remind me
Many regrets i have but not the place I grew to be what i was to be
All the money all the fame all the power
I'd still want to learn life
From those who taught me
What it is to be
A Good Human Being
100 · May 2022
GREATNESS
KV Srikanth May 2022
Patriotic to his Country
Loyalty to his Empire
Heroic in his Battles
Gallant in his Warfare
Eloquent in his Speech
Astute as a Politician
What more quality
Can a man be endowed with
An epitome of character
A pinnacle of Manhood
No mother had a better son
Envied by the Sun and the Moon
When the heart interferes
Wrong way the ship steers
Logic looses its fears
Eyes cry shedding tears
For the woman who in the heart endures
With beauty ensures
Away from everything she's lured
The power of love
Can launch a 1000 ships
Can sink them too
Born with qualities
Others would die for
Loosing all of them
To die for lust
Heart wanting what it always wanted
Everything steps aside
Knowing it is fighting a loosing battle
Aware that he too will loose the battle
Carved by poets and play wrights   gaining immortality
Even Shakespeare inscribed
The respect he gave
Genre not clear
Is it what to be
What not to be
Whatever you are to be
Whatever you are you need not be
Two lives you can lead
One an example of Glory
Another for ignominy
A lesson in Love
Where sacrifice is worth even loosing immortality
Or is it the love for which all the glory was left behind
Left time behind too
Too last many a lifetime
Perspective of the life
Of Marc Anthony
Can teach one very simply
The truth about life
Living it Living it Dying for it
100 · Feb 2022
BOOK
KV Srikanth Feb 2022
I am a man of little faith
Was engulfed by it
As the chapters of life unfolded
The wordings became narrower
Other editions had a lesson
It was called  hope
From mine was missing
Was there at the beginning
Had to take my tests
Without the two chapters
Learnt a lesson not in the book
To take the tests without faith and hope
Scored better from then on
Book cought my eye now
Fascinated to see the missing
Section
Staring at me with a mission
Dawned the realisation
The book remained the same
Blinded mind had put me to shame
Wrote the tests from the book
The tests remained the same
I had the wrong aim
Book took the blame
Checked it again
Even the book was not the same
100 · Apr 2022
KEY
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
KEY
Simple and straight
Basics sans weight
Complexity deviates lines
Burden heavier than time

Essence and purpose
On a clear course
Additions add remorse
Simply find the source

Inputs added chaotic
Pieces of the puzzle quixotic
Brain functions neurotic
Break this habit

Perfection of purpose
Relevant alone on the surface
Evolution or intutive the process
Permanent harmony with the results
100 · Feb 2022
MISPLACED
KV Srikanth Feb 2022
Certitude in a fellow
Not a birthright to follow
Living upto your value system
Not his life's mission

Natural instinct to trust
Imposing on the other
Ones own conduct
Bruised by the final result

Natural instinct to doubt
Does everything roundabout
Secrets and lies piling up
Nervous wreck the final result

Trust and disappointment
Go together hand in hand
Distrust and fear
Travel together far and near

Lays the foundation
Relationships and communication
Brings with it respect
Returned with interest

Badge of honor
Merit card for character
Liked or loved doesn't matter
Trust stands above all other

Has to be earned
Takes years to be one
Never doled out for free
Refill option not guaranteed

Opens doors to betrayal
Pain aches and disapproval
Losing faith in humanity
And even the almighty

Happens to most
Consistently and frequently
Makes one more wary
Equals self pity as a despicable quality

Misplaced trust greatest weapon
Used against you always open
Some may excersize the option
Humanities existence now a question

No point of balance
Careful just a parlance
Not a substitute
Word to make you feel lesser of a fool

Expectation its ally
Faith and belief sky high
Once bitten twice shy
Once ditched self trust the fall guy

Many a victim
Trust gone wrong
Learnt the lesson
One enough for a lifetime
100 · May 2022
MEMORY LOSS
KV Srikanth May 2022
I don't remember what I want to say
I say whatever I I don't know I am saying
I keep asking the he question who am i
And the people around me don't seem to remember me because they are blank to me.
I used to forget where I kept my keys
I now don't know where keys are used
Objects don't engage
They are irrelevant tu o my existence
Who were we and what are we doing
What are those two hands for ?
Why do people get angry with me if I don't  know them !
What is death and to whom does it come will i know then?
Does life have a meaning ? Or death have one ?
Only those who recognise life need to worry death .
100 · Feb 2022
BANNER
KV Srikanth Feb 2022
Grateful Dead + Drugs > God
Said a poster
Outside the venue
With the Dead playing Live
Read another banner saying
I need a miracle
Call it the Live Dead Oxymoron
If the Miracle did happen
Who made it happen
The equation says it all
Or so i thought
Till I saw the paradox
The Dead the Drugs or God
100 · Mar 2022
LIAR
KV Srikanth Mar 2022
What is as it is
Simple plain truth
Anything that deviates
Invented and creates
An impression to the contrary
Is a lie
No truth to be Mended
A story told out of imagination
Giving a wrong impression
Non existing in reality
Is a lie

A lie is told
Reasons can be manifold
Not in synchrony with
Ones own harmony
Out of fear  
Of reaction from another
Spiral down to situation
Unpleasant in their definition
To protect another
Cause the truth is bitter
A creature of habit
Reason not necessarily a fit
Distorted self image
Believer in his own lies
Manipulative using lies
To control emotional ties
Social embarrassment in store
Another reason to say the untrue

Biggest error in behaviour
Thinking they sold their lies
To the highest bidder
Not aware prospectively
Their lies were read analytically
Once trust lost
Not a redeemable mortgage card
Forever a suspect
No word taken seriously
Sensing rejection and neglect
Still can't change their conduct

A different reality
They seek daily
Final step in delusion
Life led in seclusion
Not trusted by anyone
Still live in illusion
Most avoidable trait
Time to go straight
Truth about your lies
Telling yourself first
Changes the lies
Told as truths otherwise
100 · Oct 2022
Introduction again
KV Srikanth Oct 2022
Lost my soul
In my fight
To live my life
Keep the Soul
The only goal
Forgot to remind
Me every night

I keep hearing
About me from others
No introduction needed
My reputation ahead headed
Innocence lost its battle
Complex convinced it
That it was foolish

Education Job Marriage
Each  a seperate ambition
Every trick learnt
Played at the table
To keep it stable
Only then considered able

Bottom line is wealth
Properties and bank balances
Respect not in self
But how we project ourselves
Playing the part of a dog
Might as well bark
Where do I stand
Goal posts shifted
Conveniently on purpose
Still missing the mark
Price paid as the highest bidder
For many questions still  no answer
100 · Apr 2021
TABLE TENNIS PART 1
KV Srikanth Apr 2021
Introduced to a sport
Watching from the aisles
All time greats
Accomplished great feats

Wanting to emulate
Dreams to translate
Started to play
Future in front lay

National Champion the coach
Thought the basics and approach
Attended the sessions
The road to hell
Is paved with good intentions

Enrolled at the club
In the local neighborhood
Coaching sessions complimented
With hours long practice sessions

Involved as a player
8 years at a stretch
Never let a day pass
Practice or coaching class
Without my attendance marked
Interest in the Sport
Gave me that record

Coach a legend
Of the older generation
Had a lot to offer
In the form of orientation

Practice at the club
Simultaneously with the help
Fellow players of the same caliber
Were mentally made of the same fiber

The sport was booming
In the school I was studying
The Vice Principal was coaching
A great team was in the making

Upset that I was training
Rejecting the mentoring
That he was offering
In spite of me undergoing my schooling
Began the process of sidelining

Did the scoring
Entire week with rounds progressing
Unaware that it was degrading
By the best Umpire award rewarding
My career as a player was near ending

Played every tournament progress non existent
Game remained stagnant
Winning one round extravagant

Years in circuit
No results to show
Loss in the 1st round
Became a rule of the thumb

Every loss confidence reduced
The very thing I hoped the game induced
Years later left me confused
Season after season
No results produced

Learning and practice
Always remained a novice
Loosing matches a practice
After the loss
Getting back home the only focus

A joke amongst players
Different clubs and layers
Beaten on the table
Reflected what I was capable

No excuse for Loosing
No one even suggesting
Rubbers & wood for changing
All alone left there hanging

Not able to win
Almost became a sin
Same results repeating
Got me thinking

Those who were playing
At my outcome laughing
Time to leave the shoes hanging
Where my thinking was heading

Blind without my glasses
Taking them away
Before my matches
Even after refree announces
Pleading with them
Made it torturous

No value added
Self only saddened
By what has happened
Even in dreams had not fathomed

In a dead end
Results remained consistent
Had shown no improvement
On the table faced the punishment

Hurt by the experience
That would last a lifetime
Said goodbye to the game
Life never remained same

Not naturally talented
Only to be made fun at
Work not giving results
Only thing to look forward
At the Seasons matches
Was being removed of my glasses

Attitude to win lacking
Skill totally not backing
Daily getting beaten
Why was I continuing

Time taken for a match
Less than time taken to travel
Nothing more insulting
Than the above statistic

Not suited for the game
Finally knowledge came
It's a game for winners
Not for a regular first round looser

Loving the game
Deeply and passionately
Playing the game
Daily and diligently
Lack of results
Put me in a quandary
Spent years hoping
The result would turn out differently
What did I do wrong
I ask myself daily
100 · Apr 2021
WORTHY OF INSULT
KV Srikanth Apr 2021
Respect for oneself
Sense of self
Worth no dearth
Harmony with the world

Lack of esteem
Complex supreme
Seldom content
If nurtured  malignant

Ego defines being
A conscious human
Carries negative connotation
Wrong interpretation

Honor and dignity
Persons sanctity
Built or Born with
Character's bandwidth

Bully and whimsical
Behavior Egotistical
Respect seldom
For self or non

Inflated opinion of oneself
Conceited and centered sense of self
Deep inner lacking
Pinnacle of self loathing

Conceited and whimsical
Bully and Egotistical
Respect for others seldom present
Mirroring the Souls Reflection

Ego defines reality
Egotistical unreality
Line very subtle
Sinking in pride's puddle

Act of Insult
Treat with disrespect
Throw in some slight
To get desired result

Notice of presence
Not taken to offend
Disregard intentionally
Decency not even formality

Ignore to insult
Powderkeg arsenal
Purposeful  communication
Intention not to pay attention


Worthy of insult
Deemed your worth
Ignore the insult
Reverse the result

No price can buy
Sense of pride
No threat can decide
What you are made of inside
Head held high
Till you die
Finite life
Live till you die
99 · May 2022
LAST
KV Srikanth May 2022
Last day of life
Lived in this universe
Hopefully by then
I'd have regrets none
Grateful for the experiences
Made me understand the nuances
That's what living is about
Took me long enough to figure it out
I will be nervous for sure
Knowing that death is near
Examples of bravery
That is read dearly
I'd replay it my head
Trying to wean of my cowardice
The philosophy id internalised
I would try to bring it alive
Great thinkers views of death
Hopefully would give my mind some peace and quiet
Not knowing what awaits
The other side of life
Would probably convince myself
Better there than the travails of life
Another day to pass
Will certainly not be my outlook
I'd rather not know that end is near
Only increases the bottled up fear
Accommodative to my loved ones
I'd be both gone and missing them
The day would pass by quickly
I'll make it longer with my memory
Life is a dream
I'm not the body or the  mind
It treats everyone the same
It's the end to a new beginning
All these ideologies
I have read in detail
Can I practice this
And see if it entails what it promises to entail
The only thing
Id be excited about
The answer I've been seeking
I'm now near its whereabouts
Matter of time
Before i know the answers
To the myth of reality
Which is going to present itself in all its glory
The last thing i would want
Comes as a shock
Time to leave as told
I would be praying for a miracle to unfold
99 · May 2022
DAYS
KV Srikanth May 2022
Live life today
Make it  beautiful
Whatever may happen
Not our decision
Handle it with perspective
Tomorrow it becomes a memory
Start a collection of wonderful memories
That is the best story
You can tell yourself
Things go as planned
Nothing greater
If not then God has taken over
Either way in safe hands
You survived till today
Remember that all day
Live it with a purpose
One step closer
To your goal
Follow your teachers
Recall their lessons
Application makes the difference
Watchful with your words
Respect the elders
Thankful to everyone
You are where you are
Because you deserve to be
Life is unfair
You react by being fair and square
When the clock shows
The same time again
If you retain the oneness
Your heart will give you the answers
That you did the process
Think feel act and react
Keeping the senses intact
Go to sleep without any guilt
You could not have done better
Even if you had faltered
Learn the lessons
That life teaches you today
Falter again but never for the same reason
Let the day treat us as it befits us
Become better that next time it shows you more respect
Rays of hope and faith
Allow it to lead the way
Have a great day
Fulfilled with no regrets
Pleased and hurt
Good and bad
Happy and sad
Smooth and broken
With the tide or against it
As darkness fills the sky
Hope for the ray of sunlight
The day after will bring with
If you do wake up
Be grateful for the time offered
Live like it' is your last day
React like you have many years to stay
Relax like you don't know how many days have been saved
Be the day that will come again
To live it again
Or comes again and you are missing
Congratulations you've gotten your promotion
99 · Dec 2021
BURT REYNOLDS
KV Srikanth Dec 2021
Set in the South
Cars chases in every route
Pedal to the metal
Revving noises drowning heavy metal
The Sheriff's department and the FBI
Gunning for the same guy
Train wrecks and action explosion
Every film lived upto your expectation
Handsome funny and Macho
A very rare combo
If you are in the cinemas
With the above events unfolding
Viewing it increased your pleasure manifold
Rest assured you are watching a vintage Burt Reynolds
99 · Jan 2022
UNITED
KV Srikanth Jan 2022
The house always wins
Anti gambling hymn
Never bigger than the game
Whatever be your fame

Pandemic declaring war
Vaccines  to heal the scar
United on the defensive
But polarized on the offensive

A couple of shots
To stem the rot
Not so simple after all
Blame game next on call

Section of the population
Questioning the effects of the vaccination
Living in a free world
They have the right to be heard

Growing in strength in numbers
Resistance groups still outnumbered
Bottom line is Pharma company figures
Castigated by society willing to endure

Conspiracy theories by the dozen
From their point has logic and reason
My body my life their slogan
Fall in line or get accused of treason

Organizations and Governments
Pharma companies getting their endorsements
Bugles sounded Civil war emerging
Like minded groups on the battle front aligning

Follow the rules
Harmony will endure
Its about others
Back up there are the death figures

Have no right
In this universal fight
Holding on tight
Last option is might

Better safe than sorry
Cannot cause others to worry
Rally to finding an ally
Not at the cost of my body

Herd immunity
One more theory
Who will ratify its authenticity
At a dead end in a blind alley

How much longer
Now the talk of booster
Corporations to collect the *****
Not at the cost of my body

Who is right
Whats going on
When did we get divided
When all of us were affected

Origin of the virus
Which caused this crisis
Pious and righteous
Was caused to sell the antivirus

Take the required medicines
Let's find peace within
Mankind's future never looked so thin
No better day than today let's begin

Two sides of a coin
No right or wrong
No winner or loser here
Who s name will the trophy bear

Polarized society
Total ambiguity
Political ideology
Pandemic ploy

If might is right
So be it
David vs Goliath
Says it need not be it
98 · Feb 2021
EARTH MOTHERS
KV Srikanth Feb 2021
EARTH MOTHERS


Mother and Brothers
Siblings and Cousins
Joint family system
Household member
Eleven in Number

P & S
Scarce to find
Two of a kind
Amiable and Kind

Donned the roles
Sans make up or clapboard
Mother Wife and law
With every prefix in

Up before dawn
Hot water for bath
Switched on
Timing bang on

Coffee second duty
For all and sundry
Equal share to everybody
No to none


Food for all
By 8 o'clock
I ternary fluctuating
Permutations confusing
On the table
Ready to serve
Lesson in management
Deserved recognition


Obligated execution
Committed Passion
Equanimity in Affection
Rarity in quality

Candles burning
Both ends
Ready to drop
Not a wink
Shut eye catch some Z's
Not written
Both their destinies

Common in Creation
Unique in Emotion
Daily by the Dozen
Handled with Silence

Take the Heat
No mean Feat
Shared the burden
Never Shaken

24*7 Spent
In a kitchen
Others first
Self last
Duty with Precision
Seldom commotion

Midnight oil burnt
The worse for wear
On the floor
What was left
Food so cold
Tough row to ***

Beat Bushed
Under the Weather
Migraine to Split
Head into two
On pins and Needles
Shaken up Spaced out

Felt Blue
End of their tether
A bear with a sore head
Took a punch

Flowing River
They compare
Burning Sun
Justice Done

Friends and Family
House guests
Apart from the rest
Another term
For Hospitality
To be included
In the dictionary
Their names are apt
And Rhyme as well

An abode
For every hungry soul
Never rationed
Or proportioned

Complain Compare
Doesn't juxtapose
Equal and fair
2 in a Billion
Earth Mothers
By definition

Cognitive Emotional
Compassionate
The 3 types of Empathy
Available in totality
Felt them personally

Fable Fantasy
Parable Mythology
Dont have Women
Characters to compare
Not even on paper
Can you find
Lying if I am
I'll go blind

Luckiest I am
Benefited most
For Decades from Birth
Deeds from previous

Same place twice
Throw of the dice
Luck of the draw
Murphy's Law
Idioms for rarity
Evidence to the contrary

Emotion or Deed
Nothing in Return
Never Sought
Didn't care
What do you call these women
2 in a Billion
98 · Aug 2021
DISTANCE
KV Srikanth Aug 2021
Bulid a bonding
With those offering
A helping hand in suffering
Using and throwing a habit
Some peoples tendency
Emotionally distant
Is the only way to keep your sanity consistent
98 · May 2021
BRAIN
KV Srikanth May 2021
Exist in the present
Future non existent
Past doesn't make sense
Solution for many problems

Anxiety the difference
Between the now and not now
By order you will never know
The point is you need not know

Conditions of the mind
Brain playing its game
Resisting it the biggest bane
Allow it flow and itll seem so lame

People  causing pressure
Are extremely immature
Punching bag for anybody
Not at all our duty

Advanced medicine
Will find the solution
Disciplined Meditation
Will cause the stress to lessen

Spiritual direction
Default action
Sets the therapy in motion
Aids in realization

Self image Actualization
Problem with mankind
Self actualization leads
To honest and true expression

Cause of the disorder
Stressful life provides the fodder
Get things back in order
Awareness gives the answer

A goal need not be reached
It's only a guide to teach
Resetting the goal
Most sensible approach

Defeat is not real
Unless given reality
A pure state of mind
Be kind to yourself and you'll do just fine

Mind wanders in it's own
Live life moment by moment
Acceptance including non acceptance
Separate thinker automatic disappearance

Zen about the experience
Observe it without judgement
Judging oneself creates a nuisance
Issue solved only by transcendence
98 · Oct 2022
DIS
KV Srikanth Oct 2022
DIS
The only act done with honesty
Is the business of dishonesty
Clarity and consistency required
To keep a lie from being discovered
If dishonesty is the way of life
Clarity and consistency automatically lies
98 · Jun 2021
DUSK
KV Srikanth Jun 2021
Sun bidding adieu
Doesn't mind being late
as it watches with his friend
the ocean and its waves
free spirited girl  and on the swing
She gives it hope that the next day will be a better day
98 · Jun 2021
BLURRED
KV Srikanth Jun 2021
Time of the night
Extending till daylight
Still of the night
Not on the mind

Eyelids closing for a duration
Winking the only reason
Eyes closed for sleep
Not able to recall from memory

A matter of discipline
The body shuts down within
By nature's law it should happen
If not what is the reason

Alertness in  thinking
The thoughts keep pouring
The mind keeps seeking
Source of the thought processing

Source of the thought
Kills the very thought
Wired and wrought
No answers breaking this law

A doctor's advice
Sought to revice
Is there any device
To bring rest and peace

Willing to pay
The price if any
Life led with harmony
Sleep and night in Symphony

Watching or browsing
Listening or reading
None of the above happening
Full throttle mind a weird feeling

Deprived of anything
Not a good feeling
Questioning the feeling
Self transcending thinking

Day  and night
Only by sight
Blurred insight
Awake all night

Not a clue
On what to do
If I bid writing adieu
Nights longer than the Trojans feud
98 · May 2022
FULL
KV Srikanth May 2022
A fulfilled life
Is a path well travelled
The ditches fell into
As a part of the process
Stinking of the Gutter
But a lot wiser
Not feel humiliated
But a sense of pride
Fell into it inadvertently
Least a lesson and
Never fell again
For the same reason
Mountains to climb
A few successfully
A few withdrew
Took a detour
Not felt like a failure
Just a fish out of water
Chose the next best thing to do
Felt good about the travel
Ticketless it ain't
Self respect didn't allow that
Gained some failed some
Cocktail of experience
Not to get a sense of high
But to remain stable in the head
Full in the heart
What more can one ask for
Memories doesn't make you sour
Future lush green or barren
Not even in thought
Living in the present
Crossing the road
From past to future
Taking a turn no more to return
Looking at the mirror
To get its permission
When the rear view mirror
Doesn't reflect the road
But the integrity of your soul
Needs don't die with death
One final request beats inside
You need 4 to
Carry you from the floor
Visiting card to show
When whatever awaits
At the next door
Got your Four
More were ready to carry
To the gates of
Your next journey
A life well lead
Fulfilled with respect
A few regrets
Not human otherwise
If regrets none
Buy a one way ticket
As no more trips
Back here
Signed off forever
With no signature required
98 · Apr 2022
REAR VIEW
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
A lone traveller
On a trip
I don't know where
The destination is
Drifting along where
The waves of destiny
Take me along
My uncle my mentor
Passed away
A couple of weeks back
Reiterated the fact
That i have no clue
What my future has
Planning predicting and preparing
There of the greatest vices
Detoxification centres required
To rid me of this habit
Facing withdrawal symptoms
Intensity not reduced
Corrected myself of
Not living in the future
Based on the dreams
That play in my head
Self sufficient are those
Who stand alone
The others follow in a crowd
Am i self sufficient i don't know yet
Trying to be in that process
Still work in progress
Not excited not scared
What is tommorow going to bring
Even tomorrow does is not aware
Of the events lined up within
An engine pulling the carriages
With no rear view mirror
I dont await  it
For I'm not sure
If iam in it
98 · Jul 2021
R
KV Srikanth Jul 2021
R
Insults targeted to defame
Mockery used as a method to frame
Made up stories imagined to malign
The greatest Martial Artist and Legend

In your face racism
Step brother of fascism
Dishonoring an actor
The way he looks and character

Legends  are  not private property
They remain in the hearts of everybody
Telling them to go **** a ####
Shows the arrogance & lack of class sans logic

Repeatedly bringing him
As a form for promotion
Attracts huge attention
Seems to be another intention

No ratification needed
Insults best ignored
Move ahead with the mission
Under his able guidance

Insulting a dead man
Worst act in s lifespan
Respecting the dead
Shows a man with self respect


Opinion of one Person
Doesn't require the comprehension
Doing it for many reasons
The one who rants gets the bad opinion

Offence is intended
Their souls will be contended
Only when the other is offended
And very often repeated

Put him in a boat
Hold on to the rope
Best way to deal
Keep moving the keel
98 · Feb 2022
GOODNESS
KV Srikanth Feb 2022
Heart on the right side
Inquisitive to your self
The things that matter
How many did i falter?

Fair in  evaluation
Translate to action
Hurt the other
Guilt not the answer

Intentions always noble
Ability to handle
Good bad and the ugly
with  poise and equanimity

Living for others
Is true living
Pay it forward
Or Return the favor

Process of Forgiving
Others deeds and self
Lagging behind holding grudges
Sure way to hinder progress

Wishing others well
Feelings from the heart swell
Selfless in joy
Comeradely in difficulty.

Class sets apart
With behaviour and heart
Good and large
On the correct path

Avoiding any conflict
Ability to restrict
Being in pursuit
Goodness only to Salute

The only thought process
To give shine  to the better
Self  inquire about the other
Repeating mistakes never

Words used to convey
Polite and respectful always
Loosing balance and temper
Not an option must remember

Not a luxury
Baggage of necessity
Interaction causing this tragedy
Governed by the ego mighty

A good man
Name to earn
Heart pronounces it
Conduct confirms it
98 · Aug 2021
WEAK
KV Srikanth Aug 2021
Weakest link in a chain
Decides it's endurance of pain
Targeted again and again
None of it will remain

Personality and character
Decides if you are the weaker
Easy target picked by the stronger
Tear you to pieces available no longer

Insulted and Ignored
Snubbed and ridiculed
Pardoned as a favor
Called upon to continue later

Asked to leave with ease
Not considered an entity to please
Swatted away across the seven seas
Self respect lynched now on your knees

Opinions ideologies and tastes mocked
Value judgements on your skill passed
Not even offered a chair to be seated
Derided with no good intended

Not unique to any
Experienced by so many
Treated as a joke and found you funny
Turn your very presence into a mockery

Survival of the fittest
Daily put to test
You the practice target
Not very hard to get

Defenition of s weakling
This is the sampling
Will there be poetic justice
Will they get their comeupance
97 · Apr 2022
COUNSEL
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
Making decisions
That do not reach
The intended destinations
Involving in Acts
Self defeating and suicidal
State of vegetation
Where status quo is considered a fashion
A person who makes these calls
In more than one occasion
Is in dire need of guidance
Prudent future action
Is the vision lacking in his thinking

Happened to many
Waltzed down the chimney
To the fire
Burnt and weary
But not ready to
Accept that his actions are faulty

Pointing out the fault
Is no problem
The inflated ego gets burst
That's the quandrary
Insult of intelligence
Is the wrong perception
Trying again with no realisation
That the same act cannot
Produce another result
Leading to more insults

Many years in
The advising business
Both ends of it
Giving and receiving
Unless pointedly asked
Do not part
With knowledge on your behalf
Wasted words doesn't stop
Thoughts and emotions given as bonus
Experiences and analytical ability
The 2 power horses
Used as cylinders
To fire the process
Of change in the other

The target misses
Invariably as law of nature
Intends
Each his own
Best cliche in the history
No 3 better words formed
Out of the English vocabulary

Not worth the time
Of both yours and mine
None taken seriously
I ve seen it all already
In my position
Things are different
The pressures i face
Are face to face
Many such reasoning
Based on the conditioning
Running through the mind
Blocking any flow
Of a new process of contemplation

Best answer is silence
Remember you were not asked to begin with
Anything voluntarily offered
Has no value
Its available free
Remain aloof hope for his good

His time is when
He realises it then
Only from within
Until then...
97 · May 2021
ASSISTANT HEADMASTER
KV Srikanth May 2021
Definition of integrity
Treated everyone equally
Possessed every quality
Boon to the student community

First lessons in Punctuality
Never taken lightly
Ingrained in us permanently
Made us better citizens in Society

Ironed shirt and polished shoes
Set the standard and the rules
An example for everyone at school
Never once lost his cool

Baritone voice unmistakable
Knowledge of the language impeccable
Personality and Conduct impressionable
His very presence and demeanor respectable

Treated everyone equally
Showed no signs of partiality
Took his profession seriously
An epitome of integrity

Manners his priority
Would impart it politely
How to conduct yourself with dignity
No one thought it more appropriately

As the subjects got tougher
He became our teacher
Taught English prose and Grammar
Marked everyone including his son without fear or favor

The Schools Assistant Head Master
Entire school had found a mentor
Straddled Education and behavior
Blessing in disguise for every teenager

Calm and Collected
Revered and Respected
Man of benevolence
Epitome of Goodness

Personification of Patience
Listened to every grievance
Kindness his very essence
A blessing even to reminiscence

Seldom a word Spoken
If not required
Every utterance thoughtful
Silence to be understood

Generations to benefit
From his wisdom and wit
Deemed everyone fit
Never threw a rage of fit

I bow to him
Not a day goes by
Without remembering him
Wish he were still with us
I'm sure his spirit is guiding us

A leader among teachers
President s award winner
The award gets the honor
Bestowed upon this Scholar

Respect must be paid
For the relentless efforts he made
In our thoughts and prayers Every single day
The legend Mr A Selvadorai
97 · Feb 2022
WAKING
KV Srikanth Feb 2022
Waking up as the sun goes up
Toing and froing life in a limbo
Burning candles both ends
Waking up not a toaster
Doesn't come with a guarantee
Shadow of a moon over a pond
Now here now not
Uncertainty of the shadow
With one follows
Shadow a silhouette by itself
Uncertainty of a silhouette
Proves how unreal
The process one daily deals
And that Mirages tried to seal
Not carried when 6 feet under
Up in flames one with Amber
Not left behind either
Statue built of illusion
To carry the legacy
So one believes
Fabric of fiction
Fable of fantasy
Visualization of vision
Inflated values given
Greatest sin of man
Pass on to the next generation
The same unreal burden
Falmily trees become chain gangs
False understanding looming over
Playing the role of the warden
Not allowing one to escape from the prison of  phantasm
Built with  walls dating back
From time immemorial
97 · Apr 2022
TALL IN THE SADDLE
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
Faith in God
Keeps us on the right path
Doesn't mean that what us due
Will rearrange itself in a queue

Life is unfair
Experiences undergone concludes
What should be ours is not
What we don't deserve is tied itself in a knot

Petty cash book
Of life led till now
Conscience makes the entry
Where we stand proves that we cannot call God for an enquiry

Both are true
It is unfair
It is rational
A combination that we don't know the compounds yet

A relationship soured
Good for all
Not deserving of a place in the heart
We learn to untie the boat and move apart

A series of unfortunate events
May happen at the exact wrong time
An occurance causing trauma
Can make us realise the value of good times and life without drama

The end of the road
Is what we are told
Poison dipped darts
Aimed for our hearts
Things falling apart
Laying the way for
A More better future
On the cards

What we think is good
Need not be good
Backwards holds water
Total scheme of affairs
Played by the man upstairs
Can understand only one move
Mans greatest challenge
Figuring out the entire game
Its not over till its over
Maker by defenition will deliver in your favor

Lessons are seldom
Learnt when things
Are sailing with the wind
Bringing you to light
Cast the dye
A painful process
Without a recess
Enjoy the ride
Rest of which while alive
Back on track
Life now stable
Gallop with rhythm
Tall in the saddle

Not the answer
We are looking for
An hypothesis forming the core
Till a better is proved as right
At hand is deemed correct
97 · Jan 2022
UNWRITTEN
KV Srikanth Jan 2022
Weary traveller
Life's route the great leveller
Leading everywhere and nowhere
Looking for the last stop
Ironically hoping not my turn
Baggage carried by the thoughts
Placed in the centre of the heart
Only baggage we hope to drop off
Accumulated as years go by
Past longer and future just shy
Scars inside tells the story why
Reality real or reality a Mirage
If i knew the answer i wouldn't be writing this at all
97 · Feb 2022
PITY
KV Srikanth Feb 2022
Human life the currency
Paid as a price
Peace the quest
For human life's security
Greatest of irony
Laid to rest
In order to possess
Peace for the rest
97 · May 2021
LORD
KV Srikanth May 2021
Taking up the duty
To protect the community
One of the three
Last resort for many

A giant snake with many heads
In the middle of the Oceans bed
His place to rest
His wife the Godess of Wealth

A section of the people
Follow him intensely
Epitome of divinity
Abode for every devotee

Literature about his ideals
Dates back millions of years
Prose Poetry and Sonnets
Whatever you ask he giveth


Every corner of the country
Has temples that house his glory
Has different names originating from a story
Each telling you how much he is worthy

Saints and Sages
Passionately for ages
Wrote transcripts for pages
Has made him ageless

Methods of worship in temples
In his case very different
Particular and perseverant
Pleasing him with dedication.

The supreme power inate
Devotees liberally donate
All his abodes remain wealthy
He shows his kindness on the weak and needy

His place of dwelling
The biggest blessing
Get his address
Considered self realised

Taken many forms
To teach manking its norm
Ten and counting
Wisdom parted the greatest protection

His forms too worshipped
Depending on the message he carried
Path of life to be followed delivered
World a peaceful place if mankind adhered

Classical Music with lyrics
Singing his praise full of spirit
Devotion to him has not limit
Any wrongdoing his judgement swift

Have him in your heart
He will never part
With him never apart
You are God
97 · Feb 2022
MUSICIAN
KV Srikanth Feb 2022
Music is in the air
A few decided to share
The sounds they heard playing
Gave it a name called composing

They were magicians
Knew all about instruments
Instructing the instruments to play
Gave it a name called Music

Rhythm Melody and Harmony
Texture Timbre and Dynamic Aspects to create the basics
Scattered pieces put together Gave it a name called Musicians

Stirring the Souls
All they require is a note
Making our hearts to move
They do it with a tune

Orchestration to give form
Final music in their heads
Playing in order already
Sharing their inner beauty

Providing the Score
To our lives
Each unique to each person
Musician s original profession

Every form of emotion
Played in the device
Of their choice
Reflection of  our feelings captured with poise

They speak through their chords
Greatest linguist amongst all
Expression their art
The most gifted lot

Verses and refrains
Points and Counterpoints
Sections and Instruments
The Musical oxygen

Life has its music
Only that we don't hear it
Too busy looking good
Ignoring the music making us ignorant fools

Life without the music
Silence is a tune
Silent movies had music
Music came  before talkies

Speaks no language
Communicates  to the illeterate
Doesn't judge worthiness
Gives it as delivarance

Alone with the self
As 2 with another
The 3 paths to salvation
The 4 Noble truths
The 5 elements
The 6 senses
None exists without the musicians take on it

Doubts about creations
Theist Athiest or Darwinian
Questioning the limitations
These can be set to music
Says the all encompassing Musician

Lullaby or  Dirge
Every stage of life is forged
Open your hearts
Feel  the chorus in all

The only world without borders
No visa or passport required
Has already achieved the impossible
Making humanity as one with his Music
96 · Feb 2021
VIBRATIONS
KV Srikanth Feb 2021
Function of Dysfunction
Error in Judgement
Emotion or Intellect
Makes us Select
Lacking in disguise
We choose
Wrong people
To Celebrate

Getting it backwards
Priorities outward
Unfair rewarded
People wrongly invested

Close attention paid
People thought obnoxious
For no reason dislike
Tells the tale
Of our Spiritual State

Never to do
With other person
Judgement comes
From Within
Choose Wrongly
Blame it on Destiny

Despise the good
Honor the wrong
Lack of clarity
Cause of Anxiety

Cognitive analysis
Clear the biases
Empirical evidence
Shows Prudence
Application gives solution

Error in judgment
Once the reason
Fooled again
Have yourself
To blame

Laws of Attraction
Right Vibration
Sensible Synergy
Emmitted Energy

Doctrine of Depravity
Attracts Arrogance and Deceit
Misplaced trust
Blame yourself

Attract the right
Dependable with trust
Fool me once
shame on you
Fool me twice
No more wise

Let them in again
It no more benign
Choose Wrong Mate
Dont blame fate
96 · Apr 2021
CAR COUSINS
KV Srikanth Apr 2021
South  west bound
Driving through the backroads
Blemishes skill
Holding the steering
Colleagues and Cousins
Alternating

Alike in thought
Education and Profession
Interests the same
Character identical
Honest and integral

Fathers best friends
Mothers greater buddies
From the same family
Thanks to the Grannies
Siblings to each

Pedal to the metal
Ripping through the South
No one on your trail
Just got a mission at stake

Forget the brakes
Push the pedal
Keep the diesel flowing
Put that  foot down and give it a go

Final destination
Before time
Rubbers burning
Gears changing

Gene  Hackman in French connection
Steve McQueen in Bullit
Charles Bronson in Violent City
Burt Reynolds in White Lightning

Done it all
Done it before
Travel the same path
100 miles plus
Engine full of wrath

5th gear release
Lowest to 4th
Shift between the 2
3rd is for amateurs

Find the RPM
Release the clutch
Control the launch
0 to 100
And out of sight
You're gone

The Rockford turn
Missed the bend
Back in 4th
Zoom past the roads

Heal & Toe
Blip the throttle
Hit the break
Find the RPM
Same foot
Shows the experience

Turbo charge the car
Use the gas from the exhaust
Spin the turbine
Compress the air
Increase the power

Grip the surface
Dont loose the traction
Push the envelope
Hear the metal

Negative camber
Flush the car
Slam low
Scrape the ground

Rotate the shaft
Increase the torque
Roads at a fork
Taxi down to a fault

Racers not ricers
Taxiing on the highway
Jetting past the speedway
No one in the way
Sound of the engine
Boeing in take off position

Enjoyed the ride
Driving skill a matter of pride
Driving and Navigation
An art worth celebration

Greatest pleasure
Easily lured
Taking the back seat
Evidence the feat
Feel the heat

To life added 1
A new dimension
Very few possession
Skill and exgpl
Dynamite explosion
96 · Apr 2022
SECRET
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
Let me tell you a secret
Most contradictory statement ever
Made by the immature
Only the mature can keep its honor

Information idea or incident
From opening the soul finds its origin
Does not have a destination
Guarding it requires determination

Foundation  is trust
Respecting it a must
Basic requirement being loyal
Passed on an act of betrayal

Not a stock to be traded
Valuing it an act of sin
Championship not to be won
Like a trophy paraded should be berated
Not an autograph to be exchanged
One person to another
Shows complete lack of character

Information is power
Adds value to holder
Not a struggle for one upmanship
Total lack of sportsmanship
Not a gift in times of rift
Gifting  even not an option

Not a movie to be previewed
Word of mouth not  reviewed
Not news to be sold
Should be treated on par with treason

Fear of being judged disclosed
Skeletons in the closet exposed
Reason for a decision stated
Action of the future confessed

Taking in a hushed tone
Calling one to come alone
Waiting for one to leave
Stopping  midway as one arrives
A secret Is at play
Your business or not
Stay away

Eager to know somehow
for gossiping
Digging deep  treasure seeking
Eavesdropping for information
Emotional blackmail
If all other fail

What you dont know
Cannot hurt
Revealing and Recieving
Not in its worth
Another mans misery
Not in your trajectory
Any such transaction
Only path  rejection

Heart is light
Each to his plight
Bow to the person
Who will rather die
Than share this information

Like Duty
No parity
Surety is integrity
Safety guarantee

Stays within
Dies with
No myth
Basic truth
95 · May 2021
DISLIKE
KV Srikanth May 2021
Difference of opinion
On a small issue
policy decision or
Matters in the public domain

Hate without reason
On wrong assumptions
Other compulsions
Yarn weaved to create the emotion

Abhorrence for injustice
The seeker of justice
Must learn to practice
End up as a novice



Forgiving the other
Option is better
Load carried lesser
Mind utilized better

Start an argument
Ignoring an option
Verbal abuse to mention
Faults of the other person

Dig deep into the causation
Emerges the correlation
Ego and pride hurt the reason
Cause of this whole phenomenon

Maintaining the balance
Straddling the silence
With bottled up violence
Rational in abscence

Loathing the being
A reflection of your doing
Positive energy evaporating
Outside world never changing

Hostility to another mortal
Mirrors your downward Spiral
Attempt to change others futile
Forever live in denial

Disregard for others
Splitting image of self
Respect yourself
But naturally respect the rest

Branding them enemy
Unforgiving and Apathy
Filled with despair
Too late to repair

Thinking becomes disoriented
Brain guided by hatred
Ego gets inflated
Soul no more sacred

Relationship gone for a toss
For absolutely nothing at all
Over the years build a wall
Alone and lonely a free fall

Characters that you despised
Continue to lead their life
Your anger makes no difference
Only you remain frustrated and with grievance

Best is to let go
Ignore the issue from the word go
Reversing the relationship a no go
Mind becomes a merry go round

Highest form of maturity
Dont show the enimity
Always show Social decency
From the heart never let them in your freqency

Thoughts facing the opponent
There is no opponent
The word I does not exist
Everything falls in place as it is
94 · Feb 2022
CONQUER
KV Srikanth Feb 2022
Achievement by destruction
In the midst of ruins laying foundation
Death and destruction as equity
Blood and hate as collateral security
Bruised egos closely knit
Balm for ego in showing might
Humanity  the casuality
Humans bartered for harmony
Division in Construction
Despair in Growth
Bullets fired aimlessly
Nothing aimed with more clarity
The bullet doesn't ****
Blaming it still
Winning  never conquers
Conquerors never win
94 · Mar 2022
LOST
KV Srikanth Mar 2022
I had dreams
I had hopes
I had faith
On God People and Miracles
Dreams never made me sleep
Fearing the same dream
That made me wake up
Now makes me toss n turn
Beat a log in the race to sleep
Sleep now only a memory
Singing Alouette to pass the night
Hope and faith
When said to me
Feels like the joke of the century
World weary been there
Seen it all
Shamus in me belittling
The innocence of my past

People i lost
The way to their heart
Or their thought
Stuck midway trying to reach
No one's answering my call
Stuck alone in search of one
Hearts that were pure i knew
Changed hearts not what I want
All in the past
Now I laugh

Miracles and God
I bet my entire  lot
Double or Nothing was the odds
That i gave God
God disappointed me or
Did i disappoint God
I'd have known in the past
Where innocent was not lost
Now i neither know God
Or where i am lost
Even he is not answering my call
But now that doesn't surprise me at all
94 · Jan 2022
UNION
KV Srikanth Jan 2022
The chords of the piano
Reaching a crescendo
Reminds me of Maurice Jarre's theme
From Doctor Zhivago
Souls have merged
Thoughts and feelings submerged
In the Love filling the air
No need for despair
The trees and flowers
The one we are picking for each other
Both will pick the same
Nature of likes your theme
Adding it's splendor and esteem
Be together forever
Even death don't do you part
Never say goodbye cause you ain't apart
Backs to each other
Instruments increasing the tempo
Rhythm section providing the beats
Cue your hearts beating in synchrony
Creating a new symphony
If the bard had seen this image
He would have written a homage
Mozart would have scored the refrain
94 · May 2022
JUSTICE
KV Srikanth May 2022
Equal to all
Partial to none
Right in the middle
Before decision done
Emotion has no role
Justice not a dole
It is the right of the wronged
Where a wrong is set right
By balancing the scale
Not tilting sideways
All things equal
None or all
To all concerned
Nothing done special
Meritocracy the defining authority
Moral code of conduct ensures
Equality
Deserving get their due
Denied by the lack of it
Scales of justice
Scales not in balance
Weighing the merits against each other
Sword to embody power
Snake at her feet
Depicting  cruelty
Blindfolded to signify
She is wise
Final verdict delivered
Justice .oves forward
May the right
Man win
Sells only in front of her
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