Missing India

Being away from one's country is not as easy as it may seem or sound , but believe me, wherever you may be India is within you, it lives within you and grows with you.As an overseas Indian I consider myself lucky enough to see my own culture from a different vantage point, in my case from Bogota, Colombia on the other side of the planet.India looks all the more beautiful from here, and I must admit, I have learnt things about my culture that I overlooked back home or took for granted.Things that are too beautiful to be attempted to be put into words, values too deep to be just understood by a materialistic frail mind and friends and family too loving not to be missed.

It may be a while before I head back home, but India lives within me and its love flourishes within the heart of every Indian who is away from his motherland.

Jai Hind !

Camera Shy....

Camera Shy...

There is this real sweet girl i know
Who is so very camera shy
Everytime I play the shutterbug
She threatens, "click ...and I'l kill you guy !".

I tell her that I am just one of those
Who wants to capture her striking pose
But she wont listen , She runs for covers
Some people sure aren't camera lovers !

Her sunshine smile is so photogenic
But the camera sure does make her panic
Boy ! I am yet to meet a face so great
Who would make the ideal candidate.

She even thinks I am crazy enough to shoot
My busy colleague's hands and boot
By now she must have figured I guess
How my mind and heart are in a total mess.

But here this day I swear this vow
To capture this beauty anyhow
So my camera waits and so do I
That moment when she won't anymore be shy.

- Mayank Gusain

(This poem was written in record five minutes and I thank the mysterious girl who inspired me to achieve this feat with her smiles, sitting there beside me as I penned this poem in her honour)

Love Divine !

A Love I know, A Love so Pure

Of all my ills I found the cure

It saves my souls with sacrifice

For paying for my salvation the ultimate price

And I see him now in Evryone

Oh what joy…oh what fun !

This treasure trove I wish to share

With you because u dare to bare

The feelings and emotions of a beautiful heart

Of a soul so pure of a mind so smart

May God bless you today to rise and shine

With a sweet hangover of a love divine.

- Mayank Gusain

Awaiting My Valkyrie...

A soldier's fate I await
Fervently knocking on death's gate
A life so dead not violence free
Is what beckons my Valkyrie...


My Life's a testimony of feelings ripped from the core
Like some jetsam washed up on the shore
Like some shadows lurking in my dreams
With a chilling silence of helpless screams
A scarred soul at war with me
Is what beckons my Valkyrie..

A sea of faces that I did slay
Haunt my conscious night and day
Laughing at my bleeding wounds so deep
The jibes so acerbic make me weep
An escape from this storm to a calm sea
Is what beckons my Valkyrie

This Life- A disease of numbered breaths
Whose dark moments mask a thousand deaths
A broken faith in a broken heart
An act of heresy that ripped it apart
A false Promise , A Love so fake
Has left only death and misery in its wake
A cry for my salvation and this past to bury
Is what beckons my Valkyrie

A walk so gloomy , a gait so wrong
Of an unsung hero of an unsung song
A pack of lies surround me here
Though some cordial truths I did share
With someone special who I still remember
Someone who once was my sweet September
Someone who oneday simply walked away
For worldly lies that come in shades of black and grey
A burning desire to loosen these chains and breakfree
Is what beckons my Valkyrie.


-Mayank Gusain.

The Wait

I am a simple and ordinary guy

With a normal mind not too hi- fi

Bit its the heart thats a troublemaker for sure

I wish if someone could find me a cure

A girl I know and like a lot

Someone I find both sweet and hot

Accepted to be my valentine one day

When my luck seemed to smile on me in every way

Since I am not the kind of dude you see

whom you would see going on a dating spree

So when I asked her out and she said "yes"

My heart got checkmated in a game of chess

Now impatiently every day I await that hour

Like the scorched earth awaits the rain shower

To take her out for a dinner and a movie

My sweet and smiling and lovely date-to-be

But things are strange the way they go

And its been 10 months and I dont know

Why God continues to keep me waiting

Some problems cropped up and we haven't been dating

The problems are genuine and short lived, the heart understands

But The Lord makes things beautiful with his hands

It just means a little more impatient wait

As I long to be with my perfect date

So every night before I sleep

I feel something move, within me deep--

A Silent subconscious prayer to see...

The beautiful face that in my dreams continues to trouble me...

- Mayank Gusain

A Heartfelt Wish

A journey started with one thing to get
To meet the one whom I hadn't met
In a long time that seemed like ages
A travel through life's most beautiful pages


As I head back now I feel no power
As I loose control with every hour
A strange emotion sweeps my mind
As I travel back with my heart left behind

The ways of the world I don't know much
But strange are the things of the heart as such
That a simple smile and a look is all-
It Took to melt it and make it fall

I now have friends among the stars
The Sun and Moon chat with me for hours
I talk at length about her face
About her soul so pure so full of grace

The heart just wants...what it wants
But one's love is not a trophy, one flaunts...
Just a heartfelt wish for all her joys so true
Is all I ask for in words so few.

-Mayank Gusain

A Perfect Stranger

A perfect stranger an unknown face
Steadily invades my personal space
I stand there with my defences broken
Comprehending words this stranger had spoken
I wonder how someone so unknown
Can seem so special , like someone your own


A perfect stranger an unknown face
Steadily invades my personal space
Of both the heart and subconscious mind
A feeling so alien yet of a familiar kind...
A healing touch worth a lifelong wait-
Now slowly attends to my wounded fate

A perfect stranger an unknown face
Steadily invades my personal space
A sea of Love that inundates
Is breaking through my heart's floodgates
This joy of being complete ,so deep within
Purges me of my darkest guilt and sin

A perfect stranger an unknown face
Steadily invades my personal space
With feelings of ecstacy and sweet spasms
Of unconditional love , of unending orgasms-
My soul so stirred has impatiently waited
To become one again ,with whom it had mated.

A perfect stranger an unknown face
Steadily invades my personal space
I have now found what the heart had sought
The spring of true love to me has brought-
A harvest of feelings though not home-grown
Triggering emotions so pure, hitherto unknown.


Love is purity and sacrifice,
It sure does come for a price ,

A perfect lover ,a beautiful face,
Now adorns my heart's place...

                                               - Mayank Gusain


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