Timeline

Never put on a jewel from someone else’s crown.
Do chase your dreams but don’t be the reason for a frown.

Look beyond yourself and learn from every sight.
Keep what’s good for you; it may become your might.

Measure every word minutely, before it escapes your lips.
For you’ll be solely responsible for every heart that it rips.

Never bring home a stolen broth, even if it means hunger.
Don’t touch the hem of luck’s cloak, but hold on to faith’s finger.

If you can’t climb to the top, don’t pull down the other climbers.
Walk; strive on to your ends even as the world slumbers.

Because remember, till today,
Every word you ever spoke, every step that you ever took,
Have been neatly recorded in time’s little note book.
~ Maithili Desai

My Messenger

Into the bag by my side,

my blood it flows steadily.

On its way to save a soul,

leaving my veins readily.

To my blood as it dances away,

softly I murmur a plea.

"Go now, and prove your worth,

of great use to some one you may be.

Go and rescue some poor soul,

flow in veins other than mine.

when someone has lost faith,

you flow with the hope divine.

Yet as you leave on your mission,

remember to take with you,

all those things i am proud to possess,

Love, Joy, Courage and Sensitivity too.

Fill your new home t the brim,

with a love eternal and pure.

Warm that heart when it gets cold,

make those quaking steps feel secure.

Dance in their heart, unabashed,

with life's warmth and bliss.

Lift their spirit when they feel low,

in a cold winter, be Spring's kiss.

Don't forget, on your long journey,

that you are compeled to teach,

how to love beyond barriers,

how distant hearts to reach.

Go now, and run to the aid

of a soul that needs you the most.

Go and spread my word of love,

before it is forgotten or lost.

Go now, with my eternal love,

I believe in its sacred might.

Iknow the world lies in hate's clutches...

Go now, and join the fight...

~ Maithili Desai

From Green Lips...

"I don’t want to serve you,
nor do I want to be served.
I just want to love you,
and in turn by you be loved.

I don’t ask any questions,
nor any answers do I seek.
I just love with all my heart,
the strong as well as the weak.

I wish you you would realize,
how painfull it is for a mother
to watch and weep helplessly,
as one beloved child kills the other.

It’s not easy, trust me
to be this hard on you.
To make you see the right way,
to make you see what’s true.

But I know as your mother,
it’s important that you learn
It may, sometimes be the harder way,
but it may help you to return.

Return to what I had made you like,
return from what you’ve done wrong
Return close to me, my child,
return to where you belong."
~~Maithili Desai