Below dark skies, he lay,
restless like a predator
who spots a prey,
He fixes his gaze on his captor-
and says, "shall we play?"-
I wish I could not speak,
so that I could write my sorrows to make you weep,
and after a tiring day when you feel weak,
on my shoulders you could sleep,
I wish I could not hear,
as then I could bear ,
your words angered or in fear,
then I would come near ,
and our emotions would flow pure and clear,
I wish I could not see,
so that you could be my eyes,
so that I won't see you cry because of me,
so that I could see truth behind your lies.
-
Together yet Apart
We sit together,
Two worlds apart.
Our relationship balances,
On a string that connects our heart.
-
Ke tumhare intazaar mai chand ka noor pheeka padjaye,
Ke kissi ke hoto se tumhara zikar theeka lagjaye,
Ke tumhare liye jali hui ye aag neeli hojaye,
Ke tumhare liye ye pyaas gheeli padjaye,
Kahi aisa na ho ke tumhari zulfo ke chao mai,
Mereko dhoop miljaye,
Kahi aisa na ho ke tumhare intazaar mai,
Mera tumhare liye pyaar hi hiljaye.
-
A Kashmiri
Part 2/2
While I am cut off from my family and my country,
A man holding a rifle tells me-
That the government has abolished article 370,
And now Kashmir will be free.
I let out a nervous smile,
While I observe the deadening silence spread over a mile.
Hunger is gnawing on my existence,
But I will survive with persistance.
Allah has made me and all of is a fakir,
But we will all rise once again just like Kashmir.
-
A Kashmiri
Part1/2
Am I lost in the abyss of cataclysm?
Is this the final gripping death's chasm?
The streets of my beloved city,
are filled with camouflage and ambiguity.
It was just yesterday when my shop was filled with laughter.
My old father was arguing with the
customer about the price of a Pashmina,
Today I couldn't match the eyes of my daughter,
When she asked me 'Abu kya yeh hi Hota hai jeena?'
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sometimes you are irrational like the pie,
and your words make me sigh,
your mind is complex like trigonometry,
and your body is in a perfect symmetry,
always I have to compromise and solve our fight equation,
and you make me crazy like math on meritnation,
your beauty memorizes me like a quadrilateral,
but after every fight i feel that our minds are parallel,
like the radius,
i think our lives should be a straight line ,
where there is no fuss,
and everything is fine,
our problems are equal like the sides of a square,
but then to solve them I am not always fair,
but accept it that I am your 'a cute angle',
and for my life your are the right angle.-