when you look at the glass what does it show you? does it often intend to make you uneasy, do you fear cause it knows what actually lies behind your broken smile? they've curtained it for long the truth that your eyes keep hurting at night as all day they've been moist - but go unnoticed, when the kisses for your forehead you thought you deserve claimed some other body, didn't this wriggle your wounded flesh? the reason you became a carcass out of a then lovely being, now stands to be a nasty shadow ( just breathing may be ). aren't you slowly becoming like the burnt butterfly they tried to flatter? the wall on the edges at times feels like the lock for a coffin, but you chose to suffocate yourself instead. when you're alone you hated to hear too many voices mumbling inside. did it confuse you to consider whom to blame cause lately you no more believe the Gods above. the question that rises isn't "why?" it's all about "why not?"
oh ! you intimidate the sinister himself for you're crueler but at what cost? you still look at the mirror, don't you? just with a little more disgust. but have you known that it works both ways?-
उस रोज़ तुम्हारे बेपरवाह जुल्फों में
मैंने बंजारों को भटकते हुऐ देखा ,
तुम्हारे मासूम हसीं पे मैंने
तारों को चोरी से मुस्कुराते देखा ,
उन झपकते पलकों को मैंने
अंधेरे का हाथ थामते हुए देखा ,
तुम्हारे एक छूअन से मैंने
काफिरों को दुआएं पढ़ते देखा ,
उस रोज़ तुम्हारे सोच में मैंने
फरियाद को भी नज़्में बनते सुना ,
फिर एक रोज़ मैंने खुदको
तुम्हे अपने ख्यालों में बुनते देखा !-
in all probability someone out there gazed at
you and smiled , knowing how you would
secretly describe them to the stars !-
metanoia :
oh how this night could be our last time,
may be you'd be ready to leave and may be I'd be already convinced !-
DO YOU RECOGNISE ?
SHE is just a woman ,
may be a nobody for you ,
though she's got her chin held up ,
and the world underneath her shoe ,
the lilies know all her secrets , they
bloom in her snippets anew ,
with the stature thou seek , I ask ,
can the questions be subdued ? for
the booze that absorbs the crowd in ,
to all are you somebody too?
SHE is just a woman, but
she'd like to stay a nobody for you !
-
gulab ka har kanta beraham ho yeh zaroori to nahi
khuda kasam kuch kante itni masumiyat
se qatl kar jate hai aur ehsaas tak nahi hota-
kabhi yeh raat sone nahi deti
kabhi yeh gham sone nahi deta,
yun kashmakash mein to kuch arso se the
par aajkal shayad mera dard hi dard ko
mayus hone nahi deta-
inn yaadon ko jitna bhi todu, marodhu, rok du
tum phir inme ehsaas banke laut aate ho
yun alfaaz banke kabhi zuban pe jo aao
phir dil mein nazm banke wapas theher jate ho
-
for someone who's tasted hunger for so long ,
even the idea of being full scares them to hell !-