Sunday, February 3, 2013

Dream On...

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Raat ko mere aankh mein aaya, ek adhoora sapna

Us sapne se poocha maine, kis mitti ka bana hai tu

Adha adhoora iss palak se uss palak ghoomta hai

Din main jo aankhein beech loon to bhi to tu peecha na chodta hai

Raat ko aa aakar aankhon main toot ta hai

Shant akela semha sa kabhi andhere kabhi ujaale mein kya doondta hai

Kissi se kuch na kehta hai

Tu kyun chup chup sa rehta hai

Sapna bola, main aisi duniya ka vasi hoon jahan din-raat ka koi bhaedh nahin

Jo poora ho jaoon to mein sapna nahin

Main to kabhi rukta nahin

Pal mein toot-ta pal mein ban-ta hoon

Kabhi poorani baton ki to kabhi sunehre kal ki tasveerein doondta hoon

Jo so gayi hai tere andar ki chahatein unhein jhanjhorta hoon

Issliye kissi se kuch na kehta hoon

Issliye chup chup main rehta hoon


Thursday, January 17, 2013

Perfect Endings...

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Kal rah pe chalte chalte, ek udte patey se poocha maine
Har jhokein se tu bhidta hai, pag pe chalte har prani ke pairon ki maar tu sehta hai
Kisi se kuch na kehta hai
Tu kyun chup chup rehta hai
Woh bola mujhse, jhokon ka kaam to hai behna woh teri taap bhujatein hai
Pairon ka kaam to hai badna, ye tujhko aagey le jaatein hai
Hai shor bahut iss duniya main jis shor ka koi aant nahin
Main shor macha kar aur yahan kis parinaam ko paunga
Main to chota sa pata hoon kal fir nit naya khil aaunga
Tu mujhko pag pe dekh dukhi na ho, main to paed ki meeti yaadon mein jeeta hoon
Isliye kissi se kuch na kehta hoon
Isliye chup chup main rehta hoon

The final page of every chapter, the final chapter of every book, most probably for a lot of people out there the most important aspect of life- closure, an overused and overvalued term.

We all work very hard to get closure, to find a way to attain that perfect ending to things but is it ever possible. Is there a perfect ending to anything? I think not. Things end and then we start over, trying to erase the memories of our past, trying to find meaning in what we did and why we lost, like a pin ball hitting going back and forth, coming to one conclusion after another till we find out that chances, the options, are over… with open issues and no closure.

But closure is so important, I push myself to write good last lines, for my poems, for everything else I write, because it gives meaning to everything I write. Those final lines define what my story is about but then again that is only an end because I want to end it and I think in there lies the answer. 


You can almost never find closure or you can find it in you to move on, to let go, to find the perfect ending. 

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
Grief not, rather find,
Strength in what remains behind,
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be,
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of Human suffering,
In the faith that looks through death
In years that bring philophic mind.
William Wordsworth


Sunday, December 16, 2012

SHE....

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Like a dream she comes dressed in light
Like the mesmerizing fog on a wintery night
She stares at you with a beaming gaze
With a brisk smile she, mends the fractured faith

Like a dream she comes close to me
And paints a picture I could never see
Writes a verse I have never heard
And sings a song I have never hummed

Like a dream she comes to say
Spread your arms and embrace a new day
Stare at sun with your eyes open
Dare to dream a dream that cannot be broken

Like a dream she comes and leaves
Waking me up with smiles and dreams
Inspiring me to win the battles fought
She comes and leaves like a beautiful thought

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

For The One He loved

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Unfazed by what I had asked, he stood there for a while

My arm in one hand and a gun in the other, He shot him with a smile

The body lying there, silent, cold and unmoving

He stared at it holding my hand, smiling

He knelt down to the body and whispered to it

It’s happened, I told you, and I won

It will happen again, voice came from the body, I will come back, we are not done

He got up ready to leave, till we meet again then, he said

The time will come soon, replied the body, I will not always remain dead

It was that day when my wish came true and his died

I looked at the cycle he had bought me unaware of the body lying by my side

Then one day the cycle broke and it came back from the dead

He looked at me with a smile, it’s ok, I love you my son, taking out his gun he said