Saturday, November 7, 2009

Hong Kong


I stand before you in honor
Not adornment, but plead
My head held high
I ask for grace
For mercy

The cloudy haze prominent today
Filthy yet beautiful
Settlements on this cliff
Stories, legends, lives
A butterfly dancing away

O! Save the islands
from the mist
For I want to return
One day-

Nisha Balani
Fall 2009
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On Time Travelers Wife

Swinging through
Past and future
Visiting present often
Veering your beloved
With little or mo sign
Wandering like an orphan

I have known you
For before than here
Before now

You visited me
You evoked love in to me

Concioisly I waited
With clothes, food and parched lips
For another story
For another glance
Perhaps a kiss of serenity
Unfolding mystey

For I have known you
Before than here
Before now

Now I bear your legacy
With which I am in harmony
I nurture in my womb
Of which I am entitled
I winder-not worry
Can you see your tomb?

For I want to posses
That which I never did

I have known you
Before than here
Before now...

Nisha Balani
In reaction to 'The Time Travelers Wife' the movie, writen on a plane to Hong Kong, Fall 2009

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Natural Intoxication?


I have been accused
of being high
The learned put it out as
"unnatural intoxication"

Accusation of nursing
a madness,
What they call
accusation of love, if you may
a feeling of all-

Accused and said no more
Silence would speak for itself-

Nisha Balani
Summer, 2006
Mumbai, India

Friday, October 2, 2009

Serenity




I am aloof of my ego.
I am complete.
Can you hear me laugh? This laugh of serenity.
Only those can hear who recognize the laugh.
I have mastered.
I am aloof of my ego.

What you do on to me, is not me.
I am not me.
I am not this body, mind or my memory.
I am none of those or more. I am.
And this that I am, is unshakable.

Swirling and Whirling. I am.
Swirling and Whirling.... and Whirling... I am...

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Ultimate Complexity

"The Universe as we know, began in almost absolute simplicity, and it has been getting more complex for about fifteen billion years. In another billion years it will be still more complex than it is now. In a billion years-- It is always getting more complex. It is moving toward...something. It is moving toward some kind of ultimate complexity. We might not get there. An atom of hydrogen might not get there, or a leaf, or a man, or a planet might not get here, to that ultimate complexity. But we are all moving towards it--everything in the universe is moving towards it. And that final complexity, that thing we are all moving to, is what I choose to call God.

If you don't like the word God, call it Ultimate Complexity. Whatever you call it, the whole universe is moving towards it. "

-Gregory David Roberts Shantaram.