The Future in January

I walk past the years and look at the future

As January comes though I wasn’t so sure

Will there be a new sunshine for me to see?

Or, a signal of new hope as what they say.

I waited, I hoped but then, I never learned

That waiting and hoping can simply be earned

In an idle time of a lethargic man

Nowhere to go if won’t budge a leg or arm

I hope, we all can hope, but it’s not enough

A balloon in an empty room would soon puff

I can wait; we all can wait from dawn ‘til dusk

The trinkets will hide unless it is unmasked

Now, I want to walk fast towards the future

But the future seems at a very far shore

In the mid-day of life still keeps on searching

The vagueness of future still in the offing

I wish to change my mind and run or step back

Time is fading in a life with so much flak

Then the realization came like a lightning

The future is near yet so far from reaching

Simple Christmas

I have a wish on Christmas day

not for me but for everybody

a wish for all to be merry

but celebrate in a simple way

As clock ticks and years are fast leaving

Christmas celebrations are changing

from simple one to profit-making

It becomes the way for carousing

So thrilled that people tend to forget

that Christmas is not for sumptuous feast

neither the reason for pricey gifts

It’s Christ who makes the Christmas complete

To rejoice depends on your belief

and it’s not all about the word thrift

perhaps it’s a pleasure for yourself

but Christ came with nothing for Himself

Sure, you have the right to expend  

and. . . we have no right to contend

but if you have the means to spend

let Christ be as the pleasing end 

Belief

Belief can be a bridge or a river

that can connect us or take us apart

can be a rope that would keep us near

or a wall that keeps us at a distant

He reads and sings praises, while you kneel

he bows his head, while you calmly sits

his belief is not what you think and feel

your belief is not within his wits

You have a Pope, while he has a Dalai Lama

he has an Imam, while he has a Rabi

all are leaders and protector of a dogma

the prudent ones that can keep us nearby

Religion, faith, belief or whatever is the term

is one of the things that flares us and keeps us going

it binds certain people but not the world as a team

but oneness can be attained if people stop reproving

Respecting ones faith is all what necessitates

for we all have the freedom to choose our belief

Religion should not be the cause of conflicts

but an equalizer so we can have peace and relief