Perfect Circles

It all comes in circles to me

Your mouth

Your arms

Your questions

Your surprises

Your earrings

And all those things

That you forbade me

To name here

Do Boond Zindigi Ke!

Jaan!

Ye Valentine Day kya hota hai?

Naye aashiqon ka vaccination day

Be-wafai

Be-aetimadi

Aur aisi hi

Kayi bemariyon se bachne k liye

Naye aashiq

Do bool muhabbat ke

Aek doosre ke samne

Fir se wird karte hain

I Miss You Terribly

When I reached home

After meeting her

Nothing was familiar

Nothing was in its right place

Everything felt different

Pictures on the walls

Clothes in the wardrobe

Curtains hanging against the windows

Books in the shelf

Curiously even

The diary besides bed wasn’t mine

Someone had scribbled in it

“Dear diary, I miss him terribly!”

The bed was still warm

As I was making sense of this strangeness

Someone suddenly

Embraced me from behind

It was only then I realized

After all my nightlong attempts of going home

After all the loitering and roaming around

In my oblivion

I have come back to her place only

“Did you sleep well?” she asked

“I missed you terribly!” I replied

No Dinner Tonight

When she stays awake

Beyond midnight hour
Way beyond her sleeping time
Just to tell you
"Food is in the fridge."
In her unusually casual voice

However much hungry you are
You know

You must skip the dinner tonight

Commas of Curls

The curls of your hair

Are bailing commas

In the long sentence of my life

Eyebrow Lessons

Since we're not talking

And you aren't asking
Let me tell you myself

I'm like
Those stubborn misplaced eyebrow hairs
You pluck out every time
Only to find
They have come back
Sooner than before

Why don't you learn from your eyebrows?

I learn from them all the time

Especially when you stop talking to me

Morning After

It is already ten in the morning

We haven’t come out of the bed yet

There is a world that shapes itself

Between the circles of our arms

The comforts of each other’s presence

The pleasure of snuggling against each other

The sight of each other’s morning face

Your “ummm…good morning jaaaan”

In your husky morning voice

Who wants this to end?

Go tell the world

I’m not coming out of her arms…

I’m not coming out of bed…

Everytime

Everytime she leaves

She leaves a letter
Written on my lips

Everytime I leave

I leave myself with her