Out of all places i amass
Their nascent dreams surpass
Each sensory remembrance
Every sweet delight
Warmth from your resting head
Left a spot amber
Lightening an else heavy shoulder
Time and distance conspires
Awaiting patiently moments expire
What were we to do if
We'd see each other again
Will we remember how it used to be
Will we awkwardly admire.
You are no longer someone else
I have engulfed you into me
Now there won't be treason
Even if i crossed boundary
Further from how you appear
Farther into you i see
Etched from my imaginations
I've sketched you across all periphery.
There were now two versions, two you
One was you and one imaginary
While life happened to the former
The later deviated continually
I like you but i love her
For she is mine to keep
You no longer have to be here
I am in love with your ambiguity.-
क्या ये धरती सूखी महसूस करती होगी
भरे काले बादलों की अजीब सी प्यास
क्या ये पत्ते आखिर में गिर कर
हो जाते होंगे आज़ाद
इस बेचैन घर्षण से
जो मिराज सा है
जिसका नाम
कुछ प्यार जैसा है।-
Is expanding, strangely
We are only left with
Our past in present
To make believe some future.
Her absence has snatched
Familiarity from this city
All its raw paths now concrete
All our footsteps layered beneath.
They call it hogwash
The patterns in which memories sway
Its different kind of ache then
Watching us turning into they.
Unaware our paths crossed
Unlikely we'll get more near
Unassumingly I'll be carrying you in
Unapologetic depths of fear.
Loving is good but loosing is better
So people can judge you
For the love you've never had
They say you need a name a person
Someone to touch and feel real
And i continued walking bare feet
My expressions inching surreal.-
बदलाव
~
कभी बाहर मन से निकलो
तुमसे मुलाकात करे शायद
कोई ख्वाब किसी आकाश
कुछ पंछी जैसे जल के पास,
कभी फिक्र छोड़ो अपनों की
तुम्हे याद आ जाए शायद
कोई शक्स अधूरी बात
खुद से मिले ज़माने बाद,
बदल सकता है सच भी
बदलना चाहा कितनी बार
इंकार नहीं बदलाव से लेकिन
कौन बदलता है कितनी बार
अपना तो बदलाव ही ठिकाना था
तुम भी मिलो बदलने के बाद।-
मकाम
तुम्हे पता है
मकान और शहर
अक्सर रातों में
बात करते है
लोगों के बारे में
उनके मकाम पर
और जो कुछ देखा
कुछ के बनने
कुछ के बिखरने पर
कुछ खाली खिड़कियां
बंद मकानों की
पूछ रही थी शहरों से
वो लोग के जिनके
सपने थे, कुछ फुरसत
गुज़ारे अपनों में
कहां खो गए
इन शहरों में
खुद जो पूरे खाली हो गए
मकान थोड़ा भरने में
कितने ऊंचे मकाम
हासिल कर लिए
खाली मकानों के
तंज शहरों ने।-
खुश रहना
होता है
आसान उतना ही
जितना सरल
है बहती
नदी का
अपनी धारा
बदलना ।-
The gravels await time
Them waters in the shallow
Dancing quaintly in moonlight.
The roads are silent
No more names or faces
Known unknown adorning them
From all that i know
That house was sold.
(Complete poem in caption...)-
Like my favourite cosy corner
Grown cold in your wait
Those shadows still holding
The familiar turning unfamiliar
And all that i was
All my comfort and imaginations
Of us
Of you
Are morphing into soulless people
Mere bones and mass leftover
A staleness preceding over
An ever fragrant grace.-
Something magical happened
Tightly held all inhibitions
Freely fell away
Unchained lightened i reimagined
How would i meet people
If this could happen often.
I didn't have to pretend
Or act or behave
I could just be myself
All embarassments evade
Maybe I'll dance, I'll even try and fly
I'll stretch out my arms
In hope to touch for yours.
Together the two of us
Would destroy and recreate
All our imagined miseries
Through our poetic gaze
I'll sing that song if you cue the words
Forget about being mortals
We'll be up with the birds!-
Through the slant
Of misty fervor
I turn and ponder
What becomes of sun
When down
What is left of darkness
But inner omens
Those who laugh
And those who are still
All are in the making
Of a mixed ill will
I saw the stars and
How dreams are made
Bustling vibrantly
Only to fade away.-