Mallika Achuthan Menon

Tinkling laughter echoed there
Dripping teardrops glittered there
Our memory lane got cluttered thus
With entangling glee and glumness both.
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Amidst the hustle and bustle of day
Can I be in your thoughts, my dear?
Why did my mind who is acting childlike,
Taxing me by asking this
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The broad and well kept thoroughfare
Got cuddled with its heavy traffic.
The town was over crowded with
folks of each and every league.
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Just a single thought of you
opened the flood gate of memories,
and gushed out golden memoirs,
the lone moments of you and me!
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That night it was drizzling nonstop,
Every where there spread a cryptic silence,
What made me wake up, I just wondered!
Naively sat there idle and watched the standstill nature,
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Another name of agedness is,
A second childhood sure it is.
Who told this sentence I don't know yet,
But a lot of sense it has, I will bet!
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Doubts

The running race goes on and on
Day and night with sun and moon
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Is the failure curse or boon?
All failed to judge it miserably.
Through care and concern in plenty
I liked to make my mother fail
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The dense flocks of dark nimbus clouds
Had caused the sky to look gloomy
The sky had vaguely tried and failed
To conceal all her own agonies.
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He was walking with a stick
By counting each and every step
With a white cane, his support.
Miseries depicted well on his face
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The potential to love
is a gift from God.
To be loved is meant for
only those who have luck.
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From dawn to dusk without a stop
The sun was shuttling east to west
As it was never ending course of action,
He needed some rest so badly.
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One and only court is there
and it is unique to each and all.
Endurance with patience often
is its emblem all through this world.
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Dear,
For me,
Sheets of papers seemed insufficient alas!
To scribble in them all
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No need of a diamond necklace
for this gorgeous night.
As the twinkling stars
made themselves
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You and me and everyone's mind
are filled with hundred thousand thoughts.
They come and go with lightning speed
Change off and on in pace of light.
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Sun and dawn came hand in hand
and started painting crimson shade
all over the sky with great ardour.
One golden ray just fell on my face
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They used to come one after one
just like waves of mighty ocean.
Sorrows trespassed human minds
to give us pangs of pain as gifts.
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In between the birth and death
Life is flowing like a river
We are fine drawn lines on water
The lines vanishing in a wink.
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With groups of tiny twinkling stars
The glittering diamonds of the sky
I was waiting for you moon
Down on earth patiently.
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