New Year Resolution

If love doesn’t come easily

Doesn’t matter

Love must come anyway

Din Mahine Saal Sadiyan

Din...tumhari yaad
Mahine...tumhara khayal
Saal...tumhare khat

Sadiyan...tumhara naam

Iltimaas-e-Shauq

Raat ke sandal haathon se
Teri seej sajaon
Yaadon ki ek lihaaf banake
Bahon mai soo jaon
Kwaabon ka narm takiya lagake
Naya saal manaon
Tera ho jaon
Bus 

Mai Tera ho jaon

Loud Talks

She talks to me with no words

Making voiceless shapes of her mouth

When no one is looking

Like a painter painting her canvas

With the brush dipped in water

AabraCaDaabra

She could have easily said

AabraCaDaabra

And transformed everything about me

Instead

She said nothing

The spell is yet unbroken

Poor Boy's Wish @ Christmas Eve

Santa!

I wish I could be you…

You don’t exist

Still

They believe in you

Create you

Celebrate you

Throughout the world

I

(sigh!)

I do exist

But they don’t believe in me

They don’t see me

Don’t celebrate me

On top of that

Reject me for my misery

Santa!

I wish I could be you!

Ghar Wapsi

Everything

That is born

Dies

I Missed The Dream

I was fast asleep

When a dream
Came to my room
Saw me
Sleeping
And left
Without tasting my eyes

I hate myself for it
How could I be sleeping!
When
I should have been up
Wide awake
To see the dream

But I know
I shouldn't worry much
This happens to everyone
Every day

Doesn't it?

Vica

I fall from your lips
Like an unspoken word
Like an insignificant mention

You hide me
In your unknown letters
In your unshed tears
Like an ugly truth

Nobody knows
That I have been inside you
Like your own spirit
Like a malignant blood clot
Coursing through your veins
In search of my resting place

You took me
Like your unaccounted hostage
Like a prisoner in exile

You changed me
Into an unmarked calendar
A shadow of your past

How can I recover from that!

I can't claim myself

Without you...

Selfie

She looked
Into my eyes
And I
Into her's

Massacre

I climb the wall

I search every corner

I find myself in each room

I take myself hostage

Throw myself against the wall

Shout few slogans in my face

Threaten myself

Shoot myself indiscriminately

And blow myself up in the end

P.S.:  I take full responsibility of this killing.

I killed myself to avenge my killing elsewhere.

This Winter Is Cruelest!

I was waiting for winter to come

I didn’t know

Winter of humanity was upon us!

132 Lessons in Humanity

Ammi

Aaj ka sabak bohot mushkil tha

Hum se padha na gaya…

#peshawaratttack #132lessonsinhumanity

Sardiyan

Tumhe Sardiyan Bohot Pasand Hai Na!

Aake Dekh Lo

Mere Wajood Ke Tamaam Zaaviye

Tumhari Yaad Se
Kiss Qadr Sard Hai

Mirror Talks

"I would kill you

If I were alive"

We both laughed.

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Wo kehti hai

“It’s hard to believe

You still love me”

Mai…Mai kuch nahi kehta

Proposal

If love doesn't slit your veins open
Hate will
Choose wisely.

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Demi-Saint

It is so strange

I am irresistibly kind

To all those

Who wear your perfume

You have turned me into a half-saint 

Divine Lesson

Man found God

While

Woman was busy

Cooking food for him

Happy Birthday Charu

“Next station is Rajiv Chowk

Doors will open on the right

Please mind the gap”

Every time I hear this

It reminds me of the gap you left

I will always mind

It wasn’t right at all

Our meeting at Rajiv Chowk that day

Like all other usual meetings

Made me smile

Laugh

Sad

Content

Fulfilled

Yet you never left without giving me hope

I remember your tiny long fingers

Comforted me like no other hand

The tiny bits of vegan food

You used to pick with extreme finesse

Still makes me smile

There are times

Crazy times they are

When I find you sitting on a bench

In some unknown park

Or at a secluded table in some random restaurant

They used to tell me

Delhi is the city of ghosts

I used to laugh at them

Today when I miss you

Beyond the boundaries of reality

I tell myself

“You found your own ghost in love”

I laugh at myself

Believing you must be laughing too

At my silly thoughts

But dearest Charu

Even if

I see you

I dream about you

Or I write about you

Nothing is enough to fill this inevitable void

This all-consuming black hole within me

I am still waiting at Rajiv Chowk
Let’s meet there next time…

Free Country

I want to declare it a free country

This mole

Yes this mystic mole

Over your upper lip
And make it my permanent home

Winter Is Not Coming…

You delayed winter

With your smile

December is so confused!

This year

Winter is postponed

Till further notice…

Soulsmith

You lost me when I was still with you

Leaving was inevitable

Insignificant though

Like stains of blood on the wall

After the body has been removed

A reminder of something dreadful

That transpired between us

Homeless, I kept wandering in your world

A nomad without any destination

Believing one day

You’ll find me a home

And I won’t be wandering anymore

Instead with your magical fingers

You turned me into a toy

Perpetually gratifying toy for yourself

And then one day

When I knew I was breaking

Like any other toy for pleasure

You sought others

And cast me away

As if that was the last favour

You did to me

You lost me

The day you asked

“Why are you broken?

Why don’t you take care of yourself?

Like everyone else does…”

I kept looking at you

But you were not there anymore…

You lost me when I was still with you

Leaving was inevitable

The last insignificant attempt

At mending my own soul

Qissa-e-Dar(d)

Maine Poocha

"You never invite me to your home?"

Lambi Aah Barte hue

Usne Kaha

"Meri Jaan! Only happy homes have open doors!"