Grateful By Ketaki S. Vaidya

 You and me Me and you I thought it's a perfect world. World with no secrets world full of love my perfect home.  What else does one need?  What else does one miss?  It is a complete whole!  But then life taught me how immature I was! You and I are never enough! There are always lots of desires. egos, pains, ambitions and ideas If you and me were that complete then why do we live in the world of hatred! If you and me were that perfect  then why the world has wars happening? You and me making a complete world, is a stupid, dreamy concept! You and I were never enough. in fact, it's a hurdle between so many wishes! 

 You are the one I trust so quickly  not related by blood but you are my family you are the supportive pillar for first day of school with you it is always fun to act like a fool with you I first talked about boys you are the relation not forced but it's my choice without you the work place will not be fun you make the walks easy when there is blazing Sun you are my support group while going through depression with you I can be myself without worrying about impression you walk with me while I am pursuing my passion scriptures say you can understand almighty with right association No matter in what age or stage of my life I am going through I will always be grateful to have a friend like you

  When everything around looks scary and dark The hope stays alive even with one spark With the beginning of the spark soon the light starts beaming It happens only for those who never stop dreaming.   No matter how much crippled you feel for now You might fly one day, you will never know how Then you will spread your wings without any fright Only if you dream now about that flight   Tough time passes, tough people survive When the right time comes, your dream will help you revive What is the mind without dream and imagination! Unleash it now from the shackles of suffocation!   For power lies with those who dream big things With big dreams in eyes, dare to ride big swings Huge changes in the world start with small act It is manifested by the dreamers, isn’t it a fact?    

 When something is observed by senses perceived by the brain,   felt by the heart  is significant enough  to appeal to the soul then the soul find a way  to express it instantly and the poetry is born that day.  It is as subtle as the dew on petals. Sometimes heavy enough to weigh on one's conscience. It is as naive as a teenage love and matured enough to empathize with someone's pain It's simple enough  to win a child's heart and complicated to  cause a political history It takes you to the world of fantasy It voices the naked reality Its a beautiful search of the creator helping souls to connect with the universe and when it is fearless and honest it beholds the power to change the world! 

 साऱ्या भिंती आधाराच्या हळू हळू कोसळून पडताना  बाळगलेली सारी मूल्ये निकामी, पोकळ निघताना  भल्या बुऱ्याची निष्फळ स्वप्ने डोळ्यांपुढून  विरताना  धागे कच्च्या विश्वासाचे विणीतून अलगद उसवताना  जवळ राहा तू जसा सारथी जवळ राहिला पार्थाचा  शांत समुद्री जहाज नेता अचानक वादळ कोसळले  दीपस्तंभाच्या आशेचे बुरुजही नकळत ढासळले  भावनांच्या काळ्या लाटांमध्ये चंद्रबिंबहि विरघळले  काळोख्या ह्या भयाण राती मन कार्पण्य दोषे बावरले  जवळ राहा तू जसे ध्रुवाचे मन होते विश्वासे प्रकाशले नाही भक्ती, विश्वासही हलका, ज्ञानही नाही कसलेही  भयग्रत ह्या मनात माझ्या  आशाही नावापुरती राहिलेली  धावधावूनी दहा दिशांना धमकहि थोडीच उरलेली  सरत्या निसटत्या वयासोबती दिवास्वप्नेही सरलेली  जवळ राहा तू तरीही जैसी प्रीत राधेची न विसरलेली  जवळ राहा तू जरी सारे विरून जाईल धुक्यामध्ये  शब्दही विरतील, देहभान अन मनही विरेल  काळामध्ये 

 Where the earth meets the sky where the hopes fly very high meet me there where life is always fair where the universe takes our care meet me there where the sky is bright and blue where my conscience feels light and true meet me there where love is the only language spoken where trust and hearts are never broken meet me there whenever I have felt scared and sad whenever the life has felt really very bad you have walked with me whenever I had the lonely feeling whenever my heart needed the most healing you have walked with me In the darkest of the hour, you have always been my north star but for once can i leave this pain very very far? where feelings and people are handled with care Is it possible for me ever to meet you there? 

 If you think about it it's really all about you from the very first breath till the very last one you come and go with yourself and not with anything or anyone you neither see anything here nor you hear anything there you see in your brain with eyes and brain hears with your ears whatever might be happening outside you feel it inside your heart all the thoughts and ideas are from within that make you look so smart so, when you are so busy with the life outside why don't you pause for a while? take a moment to look inside and greet yourself with a smile stop for a moment and practice self-care while running the rat race treat yourself fair You know what and where you are No matter what the others say so, ask all the bothersome questions to yourself by the end of the day. This whole wide world you have felt it within you The answer to "what's the whole purpose?" you will find inside too.