I remain truly yours

 

I remain, truly yours
 

I am yours, truly yours.
My love for you will never fade
Undeterred by what you are not,
Your goodness keeps me bound.
 
Hidden like stars in a clouded sky
My love for you will remain high
Somewhere tucked in my heart
Where the worldly cannot pry.
 
My like for you will continue
Till emotions erupts in all its glory
Though only for a while, my like for you blooms
Into love, as a bud into a flower
 
Love or like is all in the mind,
All it means is want
Wanting to be by your side
Every moment in my life.
 
True love and true like
Strengthens, mellows and glows
To outlast love and strife
And even life.
 
Truly yours, is all that matters.
Call it love or call it like
It binds one another
And makes my world move on.
 
I am yours, truly yours
With the dark clouds blown away
The twinkling stars declare
I am yours always yours.
 
Whatever or wherever,
It doesn’t really matter,
I will always remain,
Truly yours, forever.

 

The Pearly Gate

 

The Pearly Gate

The train whistled and passed 
Over hills and plains
Spewing smoke as it sped
The Pearly Gate my destination.
 
Safe inside the coach
Under mama’s loving care
Hands tightly wound around;
Never was a place as safe.
 
My brother and my papa sat next to me
The train tirelessly chugged along.
My grandma sat further down,
Her journey soon will end.
 
I climbed down my mother’s lap
And handed the space to another one,
Then another and another
But soon all freed themselves.
 
The train moved along and, on its way,
Villages, hamlets, towns and cities
Whiffed past like a theatre screen,
The Pearly Gate nowhere in sight.
 
It then stopped just enough to start again
The elderly alighted; their batons left behind
With their batons in hand, energized
The siblings reared to go.
 
The train moved on and on
Letting in people, at every stop
Spouses, children and all
Enthusing the journey with their love and care
 
Seated at the window, amid the glory of dusk
And the beauty of deep colours
My journey continues on and on
The Pearly Gate, my destination.