Stairways

Add a little color to this life
Take a tiny step towards progress
That what you hold onto
May be vivid and bright
But the rainbow of your future
Lies in the unwalked miles ahead…

Skeletal Remains

Lay out the skeletal stems,

Of the flowers from this basket,

Lay them out one by one,

Each one a twig desiccated,

Each one a corpse awaiting a shroud.

The noxious aroma fiercely wafts still,

A mixture of life and death dances still,

A Mixture of want and memories remain,

Amidst the aroma of dreams regained.

Lay out the skeletal stems,

Of the relics of a forgotten past,

Wrapped around dead flower petals,

Like untold stories at a funeral mass,

Lay out the stories one by one,

Each one born in a different life,  

A wistful existence falls silent,

In these stillborn skeletal remains.