काग़ज़ के टुकड़ों पर
लिखी कुछ पंक्तियाँ थीं
टुकड़ों में बिखरा अर्थ उसका
शब्दों में घिरी कहानियाँ थीं

किताब के पन्नों से
जुदा वो काग़ज़
टुकड़ों में मुझे पुकार रहा है
अधूरे शब्दों को पूरा कर दो
समेट कर मुझे, वो बुला रहा है

एक धागे की तलाश में
बिलखता वो काग़ज़
फ़िर अपनी किताब से जुड़ना चाहता है
मुझ पर आस लगाए यूँ बैठा
खुद को एक अर्थ देना चाहता है

मैं चाहूँ उसे मंजिल तक पहुँचाना
पर खामोशी में भी
एक शोर शराबा लगता हूँ
लाखों दफ़ा जो टूट गया
वो कच्चा धागा लगता हूँ

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In search of a magic tone
which could echo my faintest word
A rebel within me awoke
Brightening the dark with a flaming sword

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अगर सच में ये आँखें हैं,
तो ज़िन्दगी खूबसूरत है ।
सच है या राज़ है,
ये ज़िन्दगी खूबसूरत है ।।

कर सको महसूस अपनों को,
तो ज़िन्दगी खूबसूरत है ।
बांध सको हर चाह को ,
तो ज़िन्दगी खूबसूरत है ।।

साथ तुम्हारा हो न हो ,
परछाई की सिर्फ़ आस है ।।
तोड़ सको तो तोड़ लो ,
ये बंधन नहीं, एक एहसास है।।

चल दिया जहाँ राह है,
उन राहों में यदि तुम्हारा साथ है
तो ज़िन्दगी खूबसूरत है ।
मंज़िल दूर ज़रूर है
पर ज़िन्दगी खूबसूरत है ।।

हो कठिन पर पूरा कर
साहस से हर सपनों को ,
तो ज़िन्दगी खूबसूरत है ।
गिर कर उठना सीख लिया ,
तो ज़िन्दगी खूबसूरत है ।।

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In vain I watch the day and night
In vain, goes the planned goal
I wish to feel the magical wave
Which fills my happy lone soul

I'm afraid of tomorrow
But it's hard to live today
From those vultures moving around
I wish to fly so high away

Cogent words, what this heart all needs
as a bandage for its wounds that bleeds
But they throw some chosen words to me
It rips the bandage, and it hurts me.

Lies have secrets, truth still unknown
Life is now half gone, thoughts are still alone
Trusts are gained where truth exists
Not there, where foundation has twisted lies beneath.

Sky watches the reality
A reality of what you are inside
Either a face wearing fake smiles
Or unreal laughter and happy lies

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आज ख़ामोश ज़रूर हूँ
कल मैं फ़िर बोलूँगा
कहानियाँ नई होंगी
अंदाज़ अलग होंगे
नज़रिया बदलेगा
पर खुद को नहीं रोकूँगा
आज ख़ामोश ज़रूर हूँ
कल मैं फ़िर बोलूँगा |

दीपक बुझा था
कल फ़िर जलेगा
कदम थमा है
कल फ़िर चलेगा
आगे बढ़ा हूँ, कैसे रुकूँगा ?
आज ख़ामोश ज़रूर हूँ
कल मैं फ़िर बोलूँगा |

वक़्त तन्हा है
हर शाम के इंतज़ार में
शाम हुई तो आँखें नम
फ़िर एक कल के इंतज़ार में
इंतज़ार है लम्बा, इस लम्बे सफ़र में
आज आँखे बन्द हैं
कल फ़िर इन्हें खोलूँगा
आज ख़ामोश ज़रूर हूँ
कल मैं फ़िर बोलूँगा ||

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I used to quench our prime desire
That burns within like a fire
Heavenly bliss, all the love
Friend of mine
Or foe inside
You were always prior

I was constant, but you acted like a variable
So were insults of mine
Words were different, nights were too
But fake feelings were same, not changeable

Neither love it was, nor it was close
Hopeless scenes were all created
Mouths that were open, minds were closed
That's how you people cheated

Why oh Fortune , you seem
To tend apart my dream
Cruel vultures are roaming outside
Here I'm about to scream.

Oh Murderers of a happy soul
With hands in red with blood
The blood of fake promises
Blood of false stories
Blood of painful lies
Charges are on you
Hell is waiting for you.

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In this stream of hatred, I shall dwell
Out of dust, God created me so well
But it's better to not exist
than to exist and end in hell

""It's not what you think""
tried a lot to confuse me
But what I thought was perfectly fine
Trusted ones became unreliable
But couldn't stop me to shine.

Omnipresent God knows my weakness
My health , he knows my sickness
All knowing God knew I will end in hell
So he took me from where I used to dwell.

I tried to forget some lies being told
But again their smile makes me remember
With lies they live, with lies they'll die
Before getting in trap, I'll fly way up high.

Still left some things, I'll never tell you
My book has some untold chapters
You'll try but never get me
My life is but a book in an unknown shelf.

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The explorers finding the truth
from what they know and see
Equating the facts, step by step
led to new discoveries.

Their thirst to reveal the fact
and unearth the mysteries
Some have quest to conquer the stars
and rewrite the history

Rocks in river
Ice in drinks
Some float or some sink
Theories they make, to reach the goal
with their luminous ink.

Wait for a day when
Science meets grace
Scientists will make it for sure
Life they live is meaningful
It's not just a passing phase.

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You found me walking over your notebook
A notebook of your old days
You found me reviving your memories
and you kept watching all way

While walking forward, at a point
I looked back.
Shockingly I saw you erasing
all the sentences all the phrases
and all the stories of your past.

I just revived it for short
And you erased it for ever
You closed the notebook of yours
And I started writing mine.

Longer since I called you mine
Time has passed for you and I
I see the love go all around
It's only me that it hasn't yet found
I had it once but now it's gone
Stories are different and it has to be
Let set ourselves forever free.

My notebook has your name written
and I won't erase it soon
It will remind me of the day
I started writing my own.

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This isn't you
All the fake popularity
Not permanent but momentarily
Crowd craves for it
Alone left is you
This isn't you
This isn't you

Those dress-up those make-up
Everything you see, these all fake up
Anxiety and pain
Insecurity and irritation
Loneliness catches you
and you catch the depression
This isn't you

When these situations arise
When you feel alone
Let stars become your heartbeat
and moon dust cover you

When feelings are dead,
Mouth remains open and mind gets closed,
When it was never love
and it was never close
It was hell at the most
Feelings are chopped
And heart as burnt toast.

Be brave to face your time
It will compete you
Choose a better option
by throwing your dice
Winners never choose
The act of cowardice.

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