A White Wedding

A white little church
edged by a black cliff
by a white seaside.
It's a nice setup for
a white wedding
of a black-veil bride.

Black crows fly high
into the limpid white
above the black earth.
It's a great day for
a white wedding
on a black sabbath.

White spruces,
and black cherries,
black willows
and white birches -
at the periphery
they stand guard.

Chequered lawns,
white fountains
and  black swans,
white lilies and
roses black.
Flower girls
running around
picking daisies
and flowers wild.

A white dog's barking
at the swans
and a black one chases
few white rabbits
beyond the lawns.

Guests, all whitelisted,
shuffle in odd pairs
as a white witch
performs black magic.
A white-house resident
and a dealer in black-share.
Two men in black
and a snow-white
outta black Caddi,
Blondes in black velvet,
their stallions in white.

Guests mingle in a
large white hall
behind black curtains.
Black mirrors on walls
cast white shadows
that fade into black.

The groom's a white hat
but the bride not so quite!
Hiding white secrets
of a black knight
in white satin even on
a pre-nuptial night.

The best man gives
the black diamond
a white-glove care
The maid of honor --
out of a white-house-
black-market catalog
with a blackout stare.
(Far too many
white Russians
on a night out!)

Groomsmen in black
and bridesmaids white
takes a stance
at the altar line up for
a white wedding of
a black-veil bride.

A black widow
sprinkles white potion
as a whited sepulcher
reads what he'd scribed.
It's an apt sermon for
a white wedding of
a black-veil bride.

A white wedding
on a black sabbath
of a black-veil bride
is a helluva ride,
It's a dream
black and white
gone wild.

From Darkness to Light

When dreams turn into nightmares
and relations grow sour,
When no angel's left
to lit up your darkest hour
At dark when dreams return
to mock and incise,
But your closest fail to see
past your sullen eyes,
Where can one look for solace?
lookup to which skies?

When your silence deafens nobody
but your talent they shun
When your smile reaches everybody
yet you they so-shunt,
When hopes begin to fade and
despair looms for a while
But those around you can't feel
your pain masked by the smile
Where does one seek support?
Where's his Lily of the Nile?

When your dreams shatter
and don't let you cope.
It ain't easy to hang onto
one's dream, one's hope.
When you're drowning and
no one throws in a rope
It is too tempting to end
the fight, stop all hope.

But you're a Rajput, one braveheart
Why could not you handle a hurt?
Was it so bad? Was it too dark?

You were Dhoni, 
you played Byomkesh, right?
How can you give in now
without a fight?
Couldn't you hang onto that final rope
and pull thee from darkness to light?