I have a joke on motherhood,
but let me first take a nap!

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There's no greater pain than knowing,
you can't go back to a place or point
in time, where you were happier and content.

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It is you, and only you,
who can reach out and fill,
the empty spaces inside yourself.

You are your own handyman.
Start at home, start with yourself!

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Deep within,
The pores of your skin,
I lay foundation of a home.

With every embrace, every wall beats
A heart of its own, a life so endearing.
Where else would I ever be more secure?

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Thoughtlessness screams on a blank paper.
I look into the nothingness of it's light,
Catch a void by it's tail, and write.
It rains silence in my poems!

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What changes people?
What changed you?
Were they always like that and the mask finally slipped off?
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Why does the path that treads one to your heart, have to be two-way, and the entrant, decides to take a U-turn and use the way back?



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आसां नहीं है यहाँ 'आईना' हो जाना,
ख़ुद को भूलकर दूजे का अक्स दिखाना

हो पाश पाश भले शख़्सियत ख़ुद की
सर-ए-आईना वो चेहरा साफ साफ दिखाना

कोई पास भी नहीं आता गर टूट के बिखरे
तन्हाई है तक़दीर में उस आईने का टूट जाना

कोई आ भी जाए समेटने बिखरे टुकडों को
दिल ओ हथेली का लाज़िम है लहु-लुहान हो जाना

चुप रहना देखकर चेहरों के बदलते मुखौटे
आसां नहीं है यहाँ 'आईना' हो जाना ।

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