Saturday 12 March 2011

Let there be no music




Let there be no music
For sometime let it be silent.
Let it settle down
A little, it has been so violent.

The cries of the hero
Longing for his love he lost.
Or the band’s drumbeats
On the floor, cheering raise a toast.

Tune off the radio,
Let there be no sound.
Knock off the earphones
They give my head a round.

You ask for a jazz?
Or skip from pop to rock,
Spare me the Raga, I’ll
Even shove away the filmy dock.

Melody melts as venom, in
My lonely self and a bottle of rum,
For I have walked miles and months,
And the iPod’s been the sole hum.

Tune it off for the
Hero’s croon; love makes me cry.
Knock off the earphones, for the
Revelling beats give nostalgia a try.

Let there be no music
For sometime let there be no noise,
Hush, I quite like this silence,
Please, I just wait to hear a voice…


9 comments:

ROMIL said...

beautiful..
i cn very well relate to d reason dat made u write dis...bt dude u need to face it sometimes..nd don blame d harmless nd innocent melody, for it is nothin bt a nice form f art....
nd don worry...nxt b'day u surely gonna get an i-pod!! ;)

Rajan said...

hahaa.. ya the ipod is pending!
:P

prateekshankar dixit said...

romil's right...need to overcome it...i face it too. we always relate a memory/time with a song. and whenever we listen to it it brings back those memories attached...
be happy that these are fond ones...

Rajan said...

hmm,.. preaching thy teacher!
;P
i'd always added in my teachings, 'easier said than done'

Anonymous said...

Very well written..see sometimes silence is so useful..helps to hear things that are unheard :-)
Good work

ridhi said...

Beautiful..

prateekshankar dixit said...

;)

Rajan said...

very true viju.. i agree..
thanx ridhi..

Anonymous said...

For the first, second and last stanza: I like the way you described the intensity with which you want a deep silence when you know that you are not going to get that and your heart is just waiting to be hit with the most expected words without any sound and that will sway every drop dew in the garden of your mind.