Did you......????





Did you go over to all my favourite spots,
to soak up my presence that lingers as a ghost?





...............I know mine did,
when I was left as a sobbing wreck.

*IN CAPTION*

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नज़रें तो यूं कितनों ने चुराई हैं,
कभी तुम नजरें मिलाकर भी देखो,

शायरी तो हमें कितनों ने सुनाई हैं,
कभी तुम खामोशी में साथ भी बैठो,

तारें तो यूं हमें कितनों ने गिनवाए हैं,
कभी तुम साथ में मेरे चांद को भी देखो,

हाथ थामने के वादे तो कई करते हैं,
कभी तुम चार कदम साथ चल भी दो,

दिल्लगी तो जनाब हरदफा करते हैं,
कभी एकदफा इश्क करके भी देखो।

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You and I,
are amaranthine,
living through lifetimes
over and over,
to meet for just mere moments
and perish within the eyes
of one another,
you would sink, i would drown,
you would die, i succumb down,
for we are molded
from the sand and stardust,
created and collapsed
in tandem,
through fragrance and fust,
there is me in you
and you in me,
in every universe there is to be.
Always.

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After all this time,
I still feel the perpetual presence
of your abiding absence more
than you itself.

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Sometimes I want to write infinite things to you,
and sometimes I want to let the silence say a few.

Sometimes I want to willingly drown in your eyes,
and sometimes I let mine close to believe the lies.

Sometimes I want to sing my love for you from over the hill tops,
and sometimes I don't even dare whisper it in a silence, pin drop.

Sometimes I want to show you all of my love,
and sometimes I let my fears rule it won't be enough.

Sometimes I want to have all of you as mine,
and sometimes I let myself pretend that I am not dyin'.

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Love is the choice of poison
every poet revels in dying.

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And when you stumble upon
all of my love for you
within the ink that would have faded,
the blood & tears that I would've traded,
over all the lifetimes that
I am to live, lived and would have died,
know that the Moon above
would watch over if you smiled
or there were tears shed,
for when you recognise the girl
you once saw in a crowd,
has searched for you
in every crowd since,
with the hope that one day
she would be found.
By you.

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Loving him was red,
like the colour of terror
left glinting on the tip of knife.

Loving him was wild,
like the pounding of my pulse
upon a single glance of his eyes.

Loving him was maddening,
like loosing your very breathe
just to see him soar.

Loving him was cathartic,
like drowning in an endless ocean,
choking on your last breath of air,
yet feeling the heady rush of life,
'cause death by the torment of love
is such a sweet way to go.

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यह कैसा राज़ है,
के चांद के आते ही
तेरे यादों का आगाज़ है,
यूं तो शिकायत बेहद हैं तुझसे
पर इज़हार को न मजूद अल्फाज़ हैं,
होगा तू सूरज किसिका तो जरूर,
मगर अंधेरी रातों में
तू मेरा मेहताज है।

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Sometimes born from within the earth,
Sometimes from the embers of a hearth,
Blooming she was with grace,
Adorning the whole palace,
She was loyal to her court,
Epitome of empathy and devout,
Vankals & garlands she donned as a queen,
As regal as in the gems & satin,
With a soul as serene as Saryu,
And a spirit as sheer as Sumeru,
Bore through the cruelty of life
As a woman, daughter, mother & wife,
She walked through the fire,
In blood she bathed her hair,
It's a tale as old as age,
She is both Steel and Sage.

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