Bumblebee

See the world like a bumblebee,

where everything is small.

Fight the world like a bumblebee,

get back up when you fall.

Act as fast as a bumblebee,

counter those birds which try

to eat fellow bumblebees,

sting them and make them fly.

Don’t lost hope like a bumblebee

when badgers eat your nest.

Work your way through like a bumblebee,

and build it back with zest.

Learn to fly like a bumblebee,

Don’t let them pull you down.

Ignore their taunts just listen to

your own buzzing sound.

                    -Neel Jitendra Sattigiri

What keeps me alive?

The flame in me has turned to ice.

Cinders have turned to dust.

The will to go on seems to have

Gone with the racing gust.

Why do I feel, again and again that,

There will be no tomorrow?

And I will have to live today   

Shackled with chains of sorrow.

Even in this necrotic plague

 I am not yet dead,

I’m still looking ahead,

What’s keeping me alive?

In this mist, I’m standing still,

I’m losing my sight.

It’s taking everything from me,

Because I’m weak to fight.

It’s time I leave behind the pigeon,

And rise like a hawk,

Gain my strength back, become myself,

Whom no one dare mock.

Even though I am poisoned,

I am not yet dead,

My blood is still red,

What’s keeping me alive?

Life is just like a sine wave,

If you really do see.

There will be troughs and crests,

The latter is where we want to be.

Maybe, knowing that I can get back up

Is what’s keeping me alive.

So, instead of just thinking

I should start my strive.

So, now that I know that I am

Not yet dead,

Let me get up from my bed,

And work hard towards staying alive.

                                                    Neel J Sattigri

TEARS OF HAPPINESS

I know I’m happy, but I don’t know why,

there are tears in my eyes when i want to smile.

My heart beat has risen and it just won’t drop.

I don’t want to cry but these tears won’t stop.

There is nothing in this world that does scare

As much as the thought of you not being there.

I can’t control this thought no matter how much I try.

Sends chills up my spine but doesn’t make me cry.

When I think about all the arguments we’ve had,

I know I’ve been harsh but it wasn’t that bad.

Thinking we might fight does light a fear,

but I know we’ll be fine so I don’t shed a tear.

Sometimes I think about the lies I’ve told.

The weight on my heart increases tenfold.

I know though, there is nothing that I’ve tried to foist,

So I don’t cry even though my eyes are moist.

And then I think about us being together.

Living happily in our nest full of feathers.

I have your face right in front of me.

It’s blurred though as these tears won’t let me see.

The happiness fills me so much, it leaks through my eyes

Like small raindrops falling from the skies.

My heart beat has risen and it just won’t drop.

I don’t want to cry but these tears won’t stop.

                             -Neel Jitendra Sattigiri