Dear Lennox

In the dark big room,
part gay part gloom ,
The UV lights glowed unreal,
- an amusing sham - ethereal.

Who would have guessed,

that I would meet

Dear Lennox here !

As animals, on a celestial sphere.

Lennox, you were an angel to me.

While the "ironic", bittersweet

symphony of life played out

in the rooms without.

You must have been gorgeous,

when You felt european in france,

drinking wine, talking freely and more.

A lovely lass in a lovely land afar.

Your body so petite, so flawless,

your touch caressing me,

tassles divine and flowing,

and your skin ...

And your eyes !

I wonder what they saw,

beyond my eyes,
what your perfect eyes saw.

Lennox, you would smile,

like a charm, while

our bodies touched, a smile

to gift me ever-while.

Yet, gentle and kind

you were to me, and

Dear Lennox, I died a sweet death,

when, smiling, you said sweetheart.

Never will I forget,

Our tender five minutes
in a galaxy far along

amidst stars and song.

On batting and more ...

After two decades playing international cricket, how has he so ruthlessly accumulated these runs? "The secret to batting is to stay still and just react to what the bowler has done," he says, making it all sound simple. "You have to be still both in your mind and physically. It is so important that your mind is not full of a lot of thoughts because your reaction time is not going to be good. You have to keep your mind blank.

"The toughest thing is to clear your mind. The mind always wants to be in the past or the future; it rarely wants to be in the present. My best batting comes when my mind is in the present, but it doesn't happen naturally. You have to take yourself there. I am not able to get in that zone as often as I would like, but when you are there you don't see anything except the bowler and the ball. You have to allow your instincts to take over. Trust me, your instincts are 99% right, but you know, the older I get the more I realise how important your breathing is to good batting. By that I mean, if you focus on breathing and relaxing, you can force yourself into a comfortable place to bat."

- Sachin Tendulkar in an interview