Buy that black dress and the pearl string
Slip on the heels and dance all night.
As the music floods setting each atom agog
With lightness you float atop bubbles of happiness.

Can it last for ever and ever?
Can you buy bottled-happiness?

Fizzy like bottled-drink, happiness bubbles
But peters out too soon before the cloud is clear.
Outstretched arms and an open heart
Catches some bubbles before they are burst.

Can the bubble ever be eternal?
Can money buy me happiness?

Dancing through the night or buying all that’s craved
If this is ‘that’ happiness, I can buy more than my need.
But something is missing in-between the fun
A something missing that rises like a ghost.

Can that be loneliness or discontent?
Can that be the ‘something’ money can’t buy?

Searching high and low in every mall that sells
Dazing the mind to research the lows
In and out of hearts and relationships that sink
Happiness eludes and slips like mercury does.

Can I learn to live outside the bubble?
Can I relearn the art of living?

A tough ask although but not impossible I think
Teaching myself to be detached from events
Letting pain and happiness wash over me alike
Watching as if from above at all happenings in life. 

November 5, 2006

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The Week of November 5, 2006        
Appreciation by Dr. Sutapa Chaudhuri
Aye Khuda by Julia Dutta
Bottled Happiness by Nalini Hebbar
Bricks Without Straw by Amin George Forji
Calisthenics by Jayati Gupta  
Choice of Destiny by Anila Jahn
Dream Stream by Jennifer Marie Bayer
Emptiness Unfolding by Daniel Menezes
Future by Ravi Pipal
How Could you be Life? by Dr. Morice Deogratias
Hyperbole by Kumud Biswas 
I Didn't Cry by Raymond G. Blais 
Illicit Desires by Archana Shukla
Life After Death by RD Ashby 
Quartet by Aparna Chatterjee
Some Say by Ericsson Olujimi Odegbami
Sonnet 7 by Shernaz Wadia     
Soul in the Shelves by R. Purushothamarao
Still Voyage by Tina Martin 
That is the Thing by TA Ramesh 
There are Moments... by Shashank Jha
 

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