Knight in Shining Armor (Magic and Alchemy)

 

It now feels like eons

Amid fairy tales

and medieval romances,

I started yearning for

a dauntless savior;

Wearing rose-tinted glasses, 

I wondered, "Where is my

Knight in shining armor?"

I soon felt impatient

with the long, arduous wait

Yet my heart was adamant;

Amid hardships and tragedies,

I found the mine of wisdom

Also in abundance they came

- allies and critics

but the Knight in shining armor

was nowhere in sight.

Disregarding it as my childhood dream,

I laughed in front of the mirror when

I behold the Knight in shining armor.

The sudden realization

showered me with unfettered joy

I looked at the girl in the mirror

She had fought each adversity

with the sword of tenacity

Saved me each time

I faced any difficulty.

When I was the Sleeping Beauty

drowned in ignorance,

she awakened me;

When I was stuck like Cinderella,

She, through her hard work

fulfilled all my dreams.

At last, I found the one 

I've been seeking for long

I smiled as I looked at the mirror

Yes! I am my Knight in shining armor. 

Purba Chakraborty

13.04.2021

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Jewels (Magic and Alchemy)

 

Behold! 

The scars of yesterday

have crystallized into

jewels - azure, amber, emerald

Strength, hope, wisdom.

Fasten them on

your tiara of resilience;

Now wear your cape of confidence

as you carve a new path, 

move perilous mountains

shatter the glass ceilings

like the warrior you are!

Purba Chakraborty

12.04.2021

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In their Eyes (Magic and Alchemy)

 

In the eyes 

of my mother and grandmother,

I had seen broken dreams, 

missed opportunities

unfulfilled wishes

unfinished sentences

haunting them like a ghost

due to gender-inequality. 

I wonder how deep

their love for me has been;

They gave me the life

they dreamt but couldn't have;

They weaved a blanket 

of strength, love,

tenacity, and resilience

from all their brokenness

and sheathed me with it

so that I get to live

this privileged, liberated life.

And today, whenever

I fulfill a dream,

Win a verbal battle

Create opportunities for 

myself and my soul sisters,

I realize my mother and grandmother

are living their dream life through me;

Together we'll always be in this journey.

Purba Chakraborty

10.04.2021

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How to be the Thunder! (Magic and Alchemy)

 

You long to be 

a beautiful rainbow

on people's sky;

At times, the sun

Sometimes, the full moon

Also, a pole star.

But today I will teach you

how to be the thunder!

When people try to stifle your voice

On account of gender, caste and race

Roar like the thunder

Till they shudder

and realize their blunder;

Call out against any inequality

that you witness;

Leave your questions on 

their cloudy minds

like a bolt of lightening.

Be the thunder in their sky

Compel them to reply 

why do they even try

to stifle someone's voice

on account of gender, caste and race.

Yes, roar like the thunder

Till they shudder

and realize their blunder.

Purba Chakraborty

09.04.2021

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Give me your Hand (Magic and Alchemy)

 

Give me your hand

Let me take you twenty years back;

Can you see that scared child,

locked inside a dark room

as punishment for being disobedient?

She is shaking in fear

with the stern belief that 

she has to always please others

in order to be accepted. 

Take her in your arms,

Sing a lullaby to comfort her

Let her know she will be safe 

She will learn to protect her 

She will conquer every darkness

There is nothing to fear.

Give me your hand

Let me take you ten years back;

Yes there she is, the doe-eyed girl

Ridiculed by her school teacher

for being an introvert

Bullied by her classmates 

for not being able to fit-in. 

Her eyes rain tears of rejection

She wonders if this will be her life's fashion.

Hold her hand

Wipe her tears

Tell her she will grow 

into a beautiful, confident woman

and conquer many mountains

She will learn to stand up her herself

without losing her kindness and grace.

Give me your hand

Let me now take you seven years back;

Can you see her countenance

marked by a profound agony?

She has experienced loss of a loved one

at the cruel hands of death

Her life seems to have lost all meaning

She is terrified of losing people.

In that fear, she is building iron gates

in front of her loving heart;

She wants to distance herself from all

so that she never has to taste the pain twice.

Give her a warm embrace

Let her cry her heart out

Let her tears melt away those

iron gates that she had built;

Now, tell her how life is a full circle

Whatever goes away returns back

The same book in a new cover

The same words in a new tune.

She has nothing to fear

Life will always reward her with 

new hello after a painful goodbye. 

The little five-year old,

The doe-eyed teenager

The melancholic young woman

They all live within you.

You nurture them daily

with pearls of wisdom

and kind, assuring words of love;

No matter what the past has been,

They are happy and peaceful today

Coexisting in your heart with harmony.

-Purba Chakraborty

08.04.2021

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Flirting with the Mountain Breeze (Magic and Alchemy)

 

Flirting with the mountain breeze,

The little girl experienced life's first kiss;

The wild wind in her hair

Lured her to dream and dare

To forget all logic and sense

To see life from Nature's astute lens

To sing to the wild flowers

To roll on the verdant earth for hours

To dance for the fluttering clouds

Not care for the supercilious crowd.

Flirting with the mountain breeze,

The weary woman experienced life's rosy kiss;

The wind pampered her ritzy tresses

Inviting her to be part of the wilderness

Amid nostalgia, she had the awareness

Only living on her own terms

will give her divine happiness.

-Purba Chakraborty

07.04.2021

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Emotional Ebb and Flows (Magic and Alchemy)

 

Wading amid the ceaseless

emotional ebb and flows,

I get surrounded by a

tiny zillion thought bubbles.

I struggle for air as I swim

The thoughts make me overwhelm

I almost drown...

...Wading amid the ceaseless

emotional ebb and flows,

I again get surrounded by a 

tiny zillion thought bubbles.

Now, I witness each of them

sans any ropes of attachment

I accept some

I delete some

I ignore some

I laugh at some.

Finding the pearl of liberation,

I float in the sea of life

At ease, without strife.

-Purba Chakraborty

06.04.2021 

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Dancing with a Cyclone (Magic and Alchemy)

 

It came to consume me
To thrash me down
to the pebbled floor

To laugh at my

tears and blood-tinted lesions;

Like a barbarous sadist, 

It reveled in my misery;

The more I whined, 

the more it was unkind

Till I ogled at it

With a bona fide smile

and stood up after a while.

"You are no foe,

but a teacher in disguise",

Saying this, I held its hand.

Dancing with a cyclone

Round and round, I was thrown

I fell, I got hurt, yet I stood up

Dancing with a cyclone

Round and round, I won.

I learned my strengths as

I matched its footsteps;

Finally, when it was gone

From caterpillar, a butterfly was born. 

-Purba Chakraborty

05.04.2021

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Courage, the Queen sitting in your heart (Magic and Alchemy)

 

How long will you

gaze at those half-baked dreams

with an aching melancholy?

How long will you 

watch your vision of glory

getting blurry 

with the remnants of failures

and the bitter words of naysayers?

Stop at once

and tap into that mighty reservoir

of Courage sitting in your heart 

like the Queen in chess;

She is bedecked with 

pearls of faith and rubies of resilience.

Invoke her today

When your mind-kingdom is in danger;

Let Courage fuel those half-baked dreams

and clear your mighty vision;

The failures are now notes of wisdom

Your naysayers, part of your fandom. 

-Purba Chakraborty

03.04.2021

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Blossoming Overnight (Magic and Alchemy)

 

At the charcoal dark of night,

She realized she has lost her light;

With clammy eyes, she plucked out

Sunless, dried, rancid petals of

Envy from her heart

that had robbed her off many

Soul sisters for years 

and kept them apart.

Her burden lightened 

as she fell into slumber,

The sun rose in her heart

making her blossom overnight.

-Purba Chakraborty

02.04.2021

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A Time You Felt Happy (Magic and Alchemy)

 

Do you 

remember a time

you felt truly happy?

Not for a flickering few minutes,

But for what felt like eternity;

Dancing in the air kind of happy

Spreading love like confetti kind of happy

Feeling that you belong to the entire universe kind of happy?

Close your eyes

Take a deep breath

Feel at home with hope and love

Radiating through every cell of your body.

Walk into that room of your mind

that carries the fragrance of the happy time;

Look for its source in every nook and corner

till you tire out and fail;

Now see yourself in a new light

Yes, You - the Creator 

of Absolute Happiness and Bliss,

of every great thing that has happened in your life. 

-Purba Chakraborty

01.04.2021

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