See and miss each other.
Pranks you played
Have turned pancakes sour—
Toffees rot, silver is corpse.
Decades decay descents,
At some fewer memory stalls.
This blog is dedicated to poetry born from my tragedies and experiences—events that have allowed my emotions to flow into the stream of verse.
एक सदी सी गुज़री है अभी अभी
पर इन आँखों में नमी है वैसी हिं
लोग कहते रहे कि ज़ुल्म सहते हो क्यों?
और हम ज़ुल्म की बेबसी पे हँसते रहे।
कभी बुलाते नहीं, मगर
तस्वीर मेरी दिल पे रखकर,
मुझे छुप-छुप कर याद करते हो,
अपनी ग़ज़लों में,
फिर मुझे आबाद करते हो...
तुम भी तो...
तुम भी तो...
मुझसे ही प्यार करते हो।
तुम भी तो, जुदाई में,
बहते अश्कों से सवाल करते हो,
ज़ुदा करके खुद से मुझे,
फिर मेरा इंतज़ार करते हो।
इबादत भी, महरूमियत भी,
ये कैसा इंतक़ाम करते हो?
तुम भी तो...
तुम भी तो...
छुप-छुप अश्रु बहाकर,
मेरा इंतज़ार करते हो।
Upon the waves you swim,
I stand amazed—
The will I survived, often provoked.
I almost called you a mystery,
I almost wrapped myself in myth.
Then one day, I opened a door—
A door to happiness.
But all I saw was light,
Draped in a pall of black.
Go away—
like the hounds of pounding sounds,
and all that surrounds,
a funny errand.
Voices I heard—
like a child wishing in the well,
like poker fishing in a dry shell,
a thought to prevail,
to excel, to pale—
but all is stale.
Go away—
your heart has had enough of me.
Leave me baffled, shattered,
clattered—still battling,
though I owned you,
you barely reckoned—
fairly, barely—hypocrisy.
Thanks for it all.
Was that all but a bluff?
Still, you were welcomed.
You can hit the wall—
that is your strength.
You hit the wall—
that is your courage.
You keep hitting the wall,
believing it will break—
that is stupidity.
You keep hitting the wall,
believing it will break if done wholeheartedly—
that is faith.
You keep hitting the wall,
believe wholeheartedly, and it breaks—
that is a miracle.
Faith is blind; it needs no reason.
Miracles are unexplained.
But only hard work can make a difference—
do not escape it.
Your will generates strength.
Your strength fuels courage.
Courage is often mistaken for stupidity.
Stupidity ends where logic begins—
or so they say.
Yet stupidity, with a little insight and courage to persist,
becomes faith—
and faith is miraculous.
moments ago u were here,
moments later u were no where,
but all i know is u live in me,
and those moments are now every where
And yet, those blossoms
Could never have given me
That moment—
The one that stole my whole night.
But I know—I am alive,
Blissfully amazed by the past,
Standing still,
Wishing it had lasted forever...
Like cluttering pebbles,
Like scrabbling Scrabble,
With rumbling parables,
Scything scythes
In haunted nights—
Losing pride.
Where shall I abide,
With ringing, ringing—
Babels in my head?
ये अश्क भी गीले पड़ गए हैं,
जो मोती तुमने ठुकरा दिए,
कुछ ख़ामोशियाँ बाक़ी हैं,
कुछ यादें अब भी बची हैं।
हर शाम कहती है कुछ यूँ—
ज़िंदगी एक शाम है, जिए जा रहे हैं,
ग़मों की एक जाम है, पिए जा रहे हैं।
ये जाम लफ़्ज़ों पे आए, तो बस आरज़ू है,
ये जाम नब्ज़ों में उतर जाए, तो बस ज़िंदगी है।
ज़ेहन से उठता धुआँ,
जिस तलब की तलाश में भटक रहा है,
जाने वो फिर से मिलेगी कैसे..
The precaution fades when we love this sound,
Joy no longer seems a reason to live for,
When the beats of a song flow out through the heart.
Hail! For we’ve learned to live,
Learned to dine with our instincts
Loath of meat surmounts the skeleton,
Who rides the heart, often mistaken.
There goes Cupid,
Aiming like a stupid,
Misses the arrow —
And falls into pits of sorrow.
Drunken Cupid, too late to dare,
Anomalies are all the story’s spare
क्यों जीना यूं मुफ़लिसी में ज़िंदगी,
ये तो अदा है उनकी,
जिनसे सज गई है ज़िंदगी।
Those nobodies mocked their own inefficiency
to ever grasp it —
and to compensate for their later understanding,
they wrote a few books —
which are of nobody’s use