To the man I always go over to,
From being my panacea in the darkest phases to being the glory in my brightest era, you have held me every single time. Like hopeless romantic ones, I see all shades from grey to golden with you, in you. You are like my bolywood favourite in days of chill and change.

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Love is a natural disaster
for I have seen the catastrophic change in me.

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कई ख़्वाब थे, कई ख्वाहिशें थी।
वक्त की हवा चली, सब ठप रह गई।

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Shall thee love me on moonless nights
mine own shadow would when leave the side
As a pearl hath caught, in the oyster it lies
F'r the belov'd to find and bring to light.

— % &Shall thee touch me on June's afternoon
deftly as the sunbeams dance to tune.
Like the sleet slips down the room
shrouding the fusion of me and you.
— % &

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डर था साथ चलने का तो ऐतबार ही क्यूं किया?
ये इश्क़ है हुज़ूर, भाग्य वालो को भी जुदा कर देती।
— % &

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Everytime you put a question before me, your words act as a stabber failing to reach my depth, leaving me alive. I so much want them to transpierce my heart and shed some of my desires but all I get is loving you a little more.

I get enough air to breathe and to ponder. With this perfectly functioning body, I can easily speak. I still remain quiet. You ask for a justification, I answer it with silence.

Giving you another reason to misinterpret me.

— % &

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जो बिखर गई तो कण-कण ढूंढ़ते फिरोगे,
मैं मिट्टी सी ठोस नहीं जो हर ज़ख्म खुद में समा सकूं।

— % &चली गई तो बस पछताओगे।
लौट के मुझे लेने कभी न आओगे।।— % &

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Sacred I felt when you pulled me close,
scared you left me aftermath.

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I lay by your side,
gasping for breath
as you pull your lips
apart.

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the irony is,
we feel connected with
the saddest form of arts
than with the euphoric
ones.

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