Five Poems By Poetess Madhumita Bhattacharjee Nayyar

Poems

1 . SHE…The Woman

Her heart is full of aches & pains,
Her mind surrounded with clutter
From the outside world, utter
Grief, un-reined thoughts & confusion,
Full of impatience & irritation
She sits in a stony silence,
Shrouded in a veil of depression.
Her life falls in shreds around her,
Like the bud ripped apart in the
Turbulent storm & the raindrop shower,
The path she chose to tread, so full
Of trust & love & confidence,
Led her nowhere but to hurts, wounds, fright
And wear & tear of her conscience.
She staggers & struggles
On the thorns & the painful pebbles,
Searching for the lost road to
Her near & dears, for all
The places, memories & people
So full of love, trust, joy &
Purity of the heart, that is as clear as crystal.
Experiences make her tread back,
She is weak, unable to fight
Any more battle or struggle,
Tears well in her eyes as she
Fights the temptation
To sit, pull away from the surreal
And forever rest in her Mom’s arm cradle.
The salt in her tears blur her vision,
As she feels the emptiness within,
The weariness & shadows of time gone bym
She is unable to trace her purpose
Or her life’s definition, She reflects
On her perceptions of the right & wrong,
As her soul yearns for emancipation.
She tries to clear the cobwebs of confusion,
Frustrations & the demons of time,
Too weak to fight the storm, failing relations
And her hurting emotions,
With not a strong shoulder to lean on,
She wants the journey to shorten
And everything around her to darken.
Will there be her loved one to walk along her side,
To help her find the courage to give a tough fight,
Will she overcome the weariness of her soul,
And traverse the long journey of life?
Will she chase away the darkness
And bravely face the dawn, as before
With immense love , trust & eagerness?
Who will be her friend forever?
Walking with her, helping her stand
When she’s weary, with her hand in hand,
Filling up the emptiness with cheer &happiness,
Helping her to find her path,
Lending her strength, guiding towards her destination,
And help her take the small steps to decisiveness.
Oh!! She is a fighter brave,
She will stand up & walk ahead,
Win all battles & win over hearts,
Will fill all lives with love & joy,
Color them & make them vibrant,
Engulf all& one with her care & warmth.
Reach out to all from within her heart,
Her centre that houses love, devotion,
Where thrive faith ,trust & all beautiful emotions…

2. Make a Difference…..

I can & will make a difference,
Even if the day is gloomy or gray,
Whether it is sunny & heated intense,
With much more resolve in my conscience
But many more in my defence,
I know, I can make a difference.
I can make a difference,
When all my friends support me
And stand by me as I dream & aspire,
Even if the Universe Creates obstacles, conspires,
Stand in my way, there I stand in defiance
Saying still I can make a difference.
I can make a difference,
Whether I have plenty available,
Or have limited, a very few,
Even if I climb rocky heights or to the gorges low,
I have the drive & faith immense
And know surely I can make a difference.
I can make a difference,
I can with devotion make things go my way,
Whether luck is by my side or not, no worries, no tension,
Even if life is unfair I will never complain,
I know with all the efforts I can make it all happen,
Because I know I can make a difference.
I can make a difference,
I can move forward and go ahead
To achieve whatever I intend,
Fighting enroute various obstacles & dents,
Forging my own path to success,
Engulfing all with love & a healing embrace,
With commitments & compassion,
I know everywhere, anytime, with my humane decision,
I can & will always make a positive difference

3. DID TRY & FLEW HIGH

What if I fall Mumma??
As you ask me to try Mumma!!
What if I fail
And never set sail!
What if I hurt myself!
Made to crawl,shame myself!
They will never ever like,
If I strike
A beautiful chord
With the colourful world.
They always dread
Me holding my head
High with pride,
Instead they’ve always wanted me to hide
And set aside all my joys
Happiness ,any of my choice.
What if they stop my strides,
And lay my wings aside?
But my heart tells me to give it a try
And fly away far and high ,
Even if I fall, I will not cry,
Not wetten my eye,
Will get up and gather
My wings and try harder,
To create a new powerful chapter
Of dedication and ardour,
Of simple joys and laughter,
And not fall again but try
To keep your trust and fly,
Fly high and touch new zeniths,
Tackling obstacles mammoth.
Your belief will never break,
Will do all that it takes
To break all shackles instead,
Into new territories to tread.
Bring all your dream alive
Make our lives , live,
Not be bound by traditions,
Nor captured by fake emotions,
But just spread out my wings ,
All our own wings,
And swing and sing ,
Creating new etchings
Of a new Creation
Of freedom and new found independence.
Yes we will fly,
High and high
Into the pure blue clear sky.
See Mumma I did try!!!!

4.The Betrayal

The endearing smile
Caught on for a long while,
His eyes looked for the face
Each day through light & haze,
The large doe eyes,
The lowered eyelids, that were too shy
To look straight,
At strangers ahead .
Then one day their eyes locked
In a gaze , as the clock tick tocked,
When  time stood still & emotions rocked
And finally love knocked!
She was weary of the world around &scared,
He was bold enough to ward off all who dared,
To nullify their feelings
Or stop their eyes from dreaming,
Of creating their own beautiful world,
Full of love, care,both in each others arms curled.
Both lost in each other and their dreams,
Couldn’t see nor hear the enemies scream,
In unison against their union,
Stealthily come with ill thoughts against their communion.
Brandishing swords and knives
They tried to separate them in a forceful strife,
They held onto each other ,
Not ready to surrender
To the enemies of love &humanity,
Entwined into each other,not scared of the insanity.
They looked into each other’s eyes as the sword went in,
They smiled at each other mocking the traitors,breaking into a grin.
The swords & knives went in and came out,
Though in pain ,not a sigh was let out,
The embrace tightened,
The lights lightened,
Two beautiful lives were left ,to bleed to death,
As the safe-keepers of the society,cut short their breath.
Alas as their dreams shattered !
Their vision slowly blurred ,
Their breath stopped
And nothing was then heard,
Two in love brought to a gory end,
As they didn’t give in,nor bend
To pressures and fears,
To blackmails & tears ,
For their love’s sake
That was for real & never fake.
Their fault -was merely falling in love
Not giving into societal norms, they drove
Away ,to create a loving world where no hatred prevailed
And here in each other’s blood they lay embraced !!

5 . THE WOMAN IN WHITE

There she lay covered in white,
Her face pale in the day light,
Her eyes closed in forever sleep,
As people around her weep,
In pain  and utmost grief,
But she rests in relief.
Her entire life, they ate
Her up like parasites,
Gnawing her up,trying to deflate
Her self esteem,killing her sprite,
Reduced to a mere stone,
Without any emotions,a cage of bones.
In her own world of a dingy space,
Cold,oxygen less,lost in a maze,
Without any of her race,
Her gaze was covered in a haze
Of her beliefs, her trust,emotions,
A gamut of senses and unbridled sentiments.
By her own people,she was battered,
Her heart broken to bits,
Her entire entity shattered,
Driving her down to the shabby pits
Of her own mind and thoughts,
Tying up her sanity into dark,tough knots.
Unable to make up in her mind
The good for her,to distinguish
Between the cruel and the kind,
She decided to ultimately banish
Herself from this scary world,
Slowly her eyes closed and everything blurred.
She saw them cry in grief,
Wasn’t it a dishonest act in brief,
To show the world they cared ,
And in their tears their hearts they bared,
She laughed sitting in front,
Wanting even in death, to confront,
Her killers , her murderers,
Her heartless, wing clippers .
She wanted to tell them
To stop,to scream, to yell at them,
To be their true selves
And be true to themselves,
And if they wanted to act,
She wanted them to react,
With love towards her
And pure respect to her confer.
Lend to her an ear,
To her yearnings,her desires,
At least show their care,
In arranging the logs of her pyre,
To show some love finally,
And engulf her completely,
In the warmth of the fire,
Detangle herself from all brier.
She seeped in the freedom
Of her soul,leaving all boredom,
Mingling like a molecule, freely,
Smoothly and swiftly,
With the wind,the water,the sky higher,
The earth, the embers and fire,
Traversing all the lows and high,
At last her soul was let off to fly,
Without a trace of moisture in her eyes,
She flew away to touch the blue skies!!!

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About the Poetess
Madhumita Bhattacharjee Nayyar
Authoress & Poetess

Madhumita Bhattacharjee Nayyar  did her schooling from Presentation Convent Jammu and St.Mary’s Convent Lucknow; finishing her higher studies from Delhi University and Jawahar lal Nehru University.

Started her professional career with media ,gradually moving on to the creative writing and designing departments in various companies She has done product stories,literature alongwith valuable inputs in the designing department that go hand in hand. Apart from that she has also edited books for the MEA, MDU, Kailash Mansarovar Yatra,etc.

Madhumita is also a social commentator reaching out to people .She reaches out to students, executives,housewives etc.who just live aimlessly,without any objective or are too disillusioned with life. She has been able to make a whole lot of difference to lives she has touched.

She is a bilingual writer, giving words to her thoughts both in Hindi as well as English. She also write her blog .  Her motto in life is to LIVE &LOVE LIFE.  Contact  – madhumitanayyar@gmail.com