Today's Verse: 3 May and 11 July 2024

In the after now

Dreams come true

And nightmares too

In the after now

What I want

And what I dread

Are making out

Inside my head

In the after now

What I am

And what I'm not

Half-remembered

Half-forgot

egina nantara    nijavaguttave kanasugula

                         mattu dusvapnagalu kuda

egina nantara    bayakegalu mattu digilugalu 

                          muddu madittave nanna taleyolage

egina nantara    naneno enallavo

                          ardha nenapu

                          ardha marevu

Recollections of a Shining Youth

When we were young 

We vowed that we’d shine

As brightly as the sun

We’d stand and defy

Like gold we'd refine

Every star in the sky

When the stars saw us try

So jealous were they

Of their place in the sky

They told us up here

By night or by day

We don’t belong in their sphere

Ah but the Sun by his grace

Froze Time’s mad race

Stood still in his place

Whatever we were meant to be

Just for one moment we could see

That we shone for all eternity

And now we’ve grown old

We look back and we know

If we weren’t really gold

If we popped or we flopped

We stepped out of the show

For us just once time stopped

We glowed and we shone and time stopped