Give me all

Give me not just your love,

I want your respect too

Give me not just you silence,

I want your words too

Give me not just your heart,

I want your head too

Give me not just your body,

I want your soul too

Not for me just a bit or two,

I want the whole of you....

Come back; can you dare?

When I see you in my dreams

My heart for you loudly screams

Please come back to me my own

Like this I can't go on for long

When hastily in fear you left me last

I thought as always you'd be back fast

But to see me you declined every time

Just left me alone down and crying

Ever since I've been waiting to hear

Your voice whispering into my ear

I do love you and you are mine

Can you not wait for the right time?

Weeks and months have come and gone

And yet I wait here hoping alone

A gentle breeze will bring you along

Don't you know it's been so long?

Sometimes I fear I am hoping in vain

For when I go down our memory lane

I wonder if you really did care

If you did, come back; can you dare?

Diplomacy

Coercive diplomacy sans military might

Can never generate intended fright

A toothless mouth

Can only shout

How can it inflict the threatened bite?

Knowledge

The more you know, the less you know, you know.

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is designed

To enable

Extraordinary individuals

To deliver

Ordinary results

Far And Near

Though we are physically far and apart

I am in you and you beat in my heart

Our whispers of love we can clearly hear

But not the words of those who are near

A Wound Too Deep

There is nothing left of me my friend

But a battered and shattered heart that bleeds

Many a wound it had borne with strength

But this last one was just too deep