Inspired by sangat here, I've decided to start writing poetry again, haven't done so for about 5 years. I was looking at a few I'd written
when I was about 15/16 just to get back in the mode, and I thought I'd share them here. Unfortunately back then and even now my punjabi is not good enough to write in so they are all in English.
Please note these poems are on sikhsangat posted by 'GuptG' even though my username there is 'Singhstah', this is because I did not want people to know I like to write hehe. Just wanted to clarify that so nobody thinks I have taken someone else's writing lol.
They are called, 'Ongoing battle', 'Circle of Death', 'Serial Sinner' and 'Upside of the Down'
Ongoing BattleTherez fighting everywhere, swords flying in the air
A brave Singh falls down, looks at the blood on the ground
Closes his eyes as he feels the light close around.
More battling more dying
More blood shed more crying
This time its bullets that are flying and the battle goes on
More Khalsas fall,
Right into his lap,
Guroo Ji holds them and they dont have to look back.
Behold! The new battle
The battle of inner strength
We must think,
Will we waver? Will we drown?
Will we forsake his rehit and give up our crown?
Will we take up the ways of the world, giving up the ways of our Guroo?
Think Singhs and Singhnis and look after this panth,
HIS panth...
Circle of DeathRepetitive cycle, think about it so much its driving me maniacal
We are born, only to die and we die again to be born
Sometimes I laugh sometimes I mourn
But one thing to remember, everyday is a new dawn.
When you call me up during your angelic hours
The cycle is cut with the grace of your inifinite power
When you keep me away I'm a dead man walking
Cursed is my heart and cursed is my foolish talking.
Drive those sins away
The Sand timer of life is ticking day by day
My dark heart beats lifelessly
My black soul enjoys false pleasures so uselessly.
Dont let me die again
Let me live
NO, let my SELF die
let my SOUL live.
Serial SinnerCommiting Sins day and night,
I wonder if ever I will find redemption in life
Coping with Struggle and trouble and strife
Sometimes I feel like putting to my neck a knife
My mind never wants to think of The Name
Think its pleasure but my souls constantly in pain
Is there anything to make the crazy man sane?
Kill myself truely with the flame of the Guroo,
Arise from the ashes and then what can the five do?
The Name is the panacea of all ills
Anyone can be saved if he so wills
The medicine soon became my drug
Now... it is my Love
Upside of the DownAt the stage, when there is nothing below
(Surprisingly)Comfort is found inside the soul
Not the peace of the heavens
But the acceptance of one's Sins
Accept you have wronged, for,
that is when you will have done the greatest right
You can harm yourself no more
The darkest depths are where he listens to your plight
That one who has commited more sins than any other
Has no fear of sinning further
What is left is now to try some good deeds
'But sinning is easy, this is whats hard!'
'Precisely my child, but you have me now, I will see to all your needs'
ਸਤਿਗੁਰਬਚਨਕਮਾਵਣੇਸਚਾਏਹੁਵੀਚਾਰੁ॥