Circles in wind,
Falling down
Older eyes,
No splash

We create,
Shadows
Carrying weights,
To nowhere

Circles in wind,
Falling down to ends,
Older eyes, no pain
No splash, just rain

We breathe,
And burn
That all,
That never was
That all,
That never shall
But is,
But is

Circles in wind,
Moving back to skies
A drowing bird,
No splash, just rain

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The Sail's squeal
to the winds
and to the maggots
Sinking in the wounds

An eye open,
On an eye closed,
Awaits a misery
Predestined

Breathing a star
A looped continuum
Another night,
Infinite

Culled love
To sleep upon,
Slippery dreams
Paralyzed

The sail sails,
unbelonged
The shore seeks,
What never left

All the tears
Possibly
Just make the sea saltier.

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As if the world had an end,
And I were on a boat alone.
As if the last unbroken heart,
Had a home just before the fall.

As if you were the waters,
And we were always a hand apart.
As if the sadness is not the last feeling,
You fall before I fall.

As if the hearts in this world,
Are made to be born Just so far
That the separation before the fall
Grants a thousand moments of helplessness.

Slipping away and I can't stop you,
I close my eyes to a sleepless night.
And the last unbroken heart shouts at me,
"In the end it's the hope that gets us all."

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"I think if firecrackers were people, how ironic of a life their's would be."

"Why do you think so?"

"Because they are predisposed to be put off. People wait to see them die. And most importantly, no matter how beautiful they are; they hurt when they are too proximate."

"Oh ! Wait i got that."

"What did you get?"

"That i am a fucking firecracker."

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Last night,
I left you a butterfly
Someone, a passerby
Forgotten with a wing
Trying so hard to be, still alive

Let it go,
How could I
I had heard,
They rot for a full night

To hate is to love
Like the water with dust
Left alone for too long
Under no sunshine

Someday, I wish
I sleep in your lap at a beach
Listening to the water
With dust only under our feet.

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ये क्या हैरानी है
मुझसे बेहतर लिखने लगी हो
क्या दिल बदल लिया करता है
दर्द इंतेहा के बाद

कहां से मिट रही हो
जो मुझे नींद नहीं आती
जहां बन रही हो अब
चैन से सो रही हो क्या

मैंने ख़्याल किया इतना
तुम्हारी मोहब्बत टूट जाए
तुमने क्या हादसा किया,
मेरे दिल में भी तो कुछ था

दिलनवाजी का सबब,
की टूटी हो इतने करीने से
जो मैं बेवफा होता
तो सोचो क्या होता

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ये क्या अच्छा है
इतना चुप हो जाना
हमारे जनाजे में
क्या तुम ना आओगी

ये बिछड़ना कितने अरसे का है
तुम मिली तो एक शाम मुझे यूं ही थी
फिर तुम्हें कोई रश्क है रंगीन लाशों से
या बस टूटने का शौक़ कर लिया

बददुआ दे चुकी हो
या तुम भी आधी रह गईं
अब तो मैं तुम्हारे किसी ख़्वाब में नहीं,
तो फिर मुझे नींद क्यूं नहीं आती?

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कोई सोता होगा
मेरी नींद,
मेरी आंखे बेअसर हो जाएं
मुझे क्या शौक़?

कौन लड़े
हर हवा से
रात से, दिन से, इंतज़ार से, दीवार से
एक शख्स से
एक शहर से

होगा कोई
जो तेरा होगा
जो रहा होगा
कभी खुद का
तुम्हारा, अपना

तुम करो
कल का इंतज़ार
कल के वादे
कल की बातें
मैं कई दिन से
कई दिनों पीछे हूं

होगा कोई
जिसे गुज़ारिश हो
हमनवाई की,
मैं रोज़ तोड़ा जाऊ
मुझे क्या शौक़?

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We were, us
But everything
We could be
If the birds flew twice
From the same sky

If I remembered
How I looked
The last time
We saw each other

If I had forgotten
The phases of moon
In my eyes
In your heart

Or if we died
In an alternate universe
Together, somehow,
When we lay naked
For the first time

I was,
Maybe
A blue house
With a leaking roof.

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Für Elise.

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