Love ..

your love is essential
to keep intact the grains of sand
that build my castle of life..
keep moist it with your love,
let not the wind wear it away ..

..

i don't care the waves washing it away
wanting us to feel insignificant,
but i know we will be intangible(to it),
(perhaps) 'will tear away
(but) with a promise to be together
always .. forever .

do-teen aaftaab

hawa ke parde
jab khidkiyon par
lehrate hain,
teri yaad kuch hisse
dhoop me
rang jate hain,
khali deewaron par
do teen aaftaab bhi
mil jate hain..

jarurat nahi mujhe ab
kisi charag ki,
tere surur me
ye mere syaah kamre,ab
roshni me
pighal jate hain!

loving someone

I think I am in love,
feeling it, gushing through the
faucets of my heart ..
yet, hesitating to admit it,
for the sake of my plausible tomorrow
devoid of further heart breaks ..

my mind chuckles often,
sifts my logic,
pans my view ..
puts bumps on the way to slow down my heart-steed ..

a bit puzzled
now i am
..

to say some one 'i Love you'
and hearing same words
soothe ..

but also
it subdues the pragmatic me sometimes ..

now,
on the lookout to those realms
where the domain of
my feelings and my pragmatism
overlap ..

somehow
i know, may be by instinct
or on a hunch,
that i shall not fail ..

...

Snakes

i wish
i could chase your name
slithering
on sand (of time) ..

as my ears had turned deaf,
as i expanded my hood
you stung me..

we used to hiss our songs,
that you can now forget
as poison pollutes memories ..

'am half asleep now,
and you coiled again
watching me uttering
the words that got limping on the way ..

you waiting, for what .. ?

It seems my lips are still red ..

Quickie

our silence merged,
entangled eyelashes ..
a soft bite on your either earlobe,
and then i brushed my lips
onto your nape ..
and ..

passionate, wasn't that ?

and in that short ticking of time,
i leapt millions of emotions ..

wondering
when our fate will merge into each other ..
and when we will lip-lock our commitment ..

a ring will do,
some chants will do ..
and some later years will surely do ..

oh, i've got tired of these 'quickie' ..

Hold ..

dangle with me like a drop of dew
on a thread of web ..
and when the sun will be yellow
we will vanish into each other ..
invisible we will be,
far from anyone's gaze,
in a dual solitude,
knitting some clandestine silences ..

can i hold you in my palm ?

Firaaq ..

Roshnii ud rahi thii sadakon par kandilon se tangii huyi ..
kaarwaan badh raha tha azal se azal tak,
thake huye qadam the shayad
shukr hai ki girne se pehle hi tere Deed ke Saray aaye ..


beete jo lamhe to humne jaana firaaq ne kis falak par pahuncha diya,
apni turbat ko nasseb mitti par jo tere lams mile the shayad,
zinda hun teri ummeed me, ab to yakin hai zameen pe hii nazar mujhe Arsh aaye ..

ye Nagma mera hai khoobsurat, paak, apne ishq ke maanind
karun ab ibtidaa apna khayal, jehen me jo aaye to bas tera hi khayal aaye
yaa Rab, abke jo palatun apnii saanson ki kitaab ko,
to utre jo lab pe to bas 'Tera' hi qalaam aaye ..