Make sure you taste
Your words
Before you
Serve them to others!

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Watch yourself because
there'll be
Many to claim
But
None to explain!

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Watch your thoughts because they become your words!
Watch your words because they become your actions!
Watch your actions because they become your habits!
Watch your habits because they become your character,
And character is what becomes a destination!
-Incipiò

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Strike and look through a person's thoughts, you'd realise how they aren't even where they seem to be; and neither do you have to compare yourself with them.

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It's the wine that I haven't tasted,
the melodies that I haven't heard,
the people that I haven't met,
the highs of the mountains I haven't climbed,
the lows of an ocean I haven't swam across,
the pin points of the aisle that I haven't imagined yet with anyone,
the stories of past that I haven't narrated,
the rhymes and wind chimes I haven't decorated my life with,
it's these beauty blocks that are helping me
these little chunks of life that are adding to my will-
will to fight through,
to transform this blockage into a better growth,
will to surpass this darkness and visit that stars that await to add to my shine.

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गुज़र जायेगा ये लम्हा भी
बिखर जायेगा ये कहना भी,
हर संभालती सांस के साथ,
थम जायेगा तुम्हारा सिसकना भी।

ये लम्हा भी कल की सीख लगेगा
तुम्हारा अपना मन तुमसे बिछड़ना चाहेगा
कमी तो होगी साथी की भी, किसी सहारे की भी
उस बीच भी तुम्हारा अपना हाथ, अपना ना लगेगा।

मुकम्मल कई मुकाम गिरते हुए से लगेंगे
तुम्हारे अपने दिन, तुम पर भरी पड़ेंगे।
सिहरन भी होगी, सूरज की किरण भी होगी
तुम्हारी ख्वाइशें भी होंगी
उन्हे जलाती हालातों की बंदिशें भी होंगी;

मौजूदगी हर कर्ण की होगी
पर जरूरत तुम्हें तुम्हारी ही होगी
चाहे जितना भटकोगे तुम,
किसी न किसी बहाने, लौट कर खुद पे ही आओगे तुम।

गुज़र तो जायेगा ये लम्हा भी
सच तो होंगी कई बातें ही
झूठी लगेगी हर कहानी अनकही
अगर तुम ना होगे हमदम खुद के कभी।

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Reciting my agony, I tell her how the day is sickening today
She agrees it's blanch and also a little unwanted
But assures the following sun will bring back the burdened life,
we'll be then, just fine.
I suggest a solution, us to runaway
She agrees she wishes the same
But falls short on geography.
Her lips fumble and her breath rises,
She opines it's waste.
I ask why and she answers calmly,
"When the inside is hollow, no amount of crowded place or overflowing newness of any geography will make you feel safe."
Silence follows as we breathe pain in our vacant chambers.

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For a person who recently became shelterless
a roadside seems cozy to me.
Walls are scary
foundation is scary
no matter how perfect a buildup,
houses fall apart.
My house did too.
I'm struck by the fall out
the strangeness
it makes me wonder
did I ever actually have a home
or just a house that lost all walls to a storm that occurred
because I chose to open the windows?
I wouldn't know until I feel cozy tonight
I wouldn't know until I settle on a roadside.

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Maybe if I could stop reading through their words
and start reading my syllabus
I'd grow.

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कितनी नज़ाखत से हर कोई मुंह मोड़ कर जाता है
कितनी कोमलता से, हर कोई अपनी ज़ुबान थोप कर जाता है
कहने को तो हर कोई साथ रहने की बातें करता है
असलियत में तो शायद ही कोई शब्दों का मोल समझता है

वो शब्द क्या समझेंगे, वो खुद को नहीं समझते
वो मुझे क्या सुनेंगे, वो अपने आप की सुनने में व्यस्त हैं

मैं बिन मतलब अलग समझ बैठी थी,
वो असलियत दिखा गए अलग करते करते
मैं न जाने किस गलतफहमी को अपना कर बैठी थी
वो आज दूर करके, सब कुछ साफ कर गए।

कुछ कहने को तो शायद ही बाकी है
पर शायद शब्दों को जोड़ते जोड़ते
रात निकलने वाली है

वो ना समझेंगे इन्हे, हम उन्हे सुनाएंगे भी नहीं
वो यूहीं बातों में उलझाएंगे
हम उलझ कर सुलझ जायेंगे।

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