Life teaches me

Life has been a good teacher and after all these years I realized that we all look for anchors...I started my life with the first anchor of breath and my last anchor will be death and the real purpose of life is to find other anchors in between...the best one I found is LOVE - even in each moments I breathe and I die.

Aao mere khwaboon ki barishon

Aaj meri rooh pe baras jao

Mera wajood ko reza reza bigao

Mujhe apne naam se bhi aaj paak kardo

Bus aajao, jald aajao!!!

Mujhse wo rang nahi utrey ga...

Ek choti si masoom ladki

Khushboo ki dukaan se

Khushboo ki khali sheeshiyan

Haath phelaye maang rahi thi

Unhe paa kar

Kitni masoom hasraton se

Khool khool kar soong kar

Apne maeley ad nangey badan par

Kissi dulhan ki tarha mal rahi thi

Aur khil khila kar

Apni hasraton ki khushboo pa kar

Masoomiyat se khush ho rahi thi

Mai uski hansi ki khushboo mai

Der tak masroor

Khada dekh raha tha

Aur wo mujhe dekhte dekh kar

Mere paas aakar kehne lagi

“Saheb, kuch paisa do na,

Mehndi lagani hai.”

Maine apni jeeb se

Kuch sikkey nikal kar

Uskey mehndi se khaali hathoon mai

Uski mehndi ki tamana ke naam kar diye

Mujhe nahi maloom

Uski mehndi lagi ki nahi

Par uski awaaz ki khushboo

Ki mehndi ka rang

Mere wajood pe chad gaya tha

Wo rang aaj tak nahi utra hai…

Wo rang aaj tak nahi utra hai…

Social Networking

I don’t love you because you like it on facebook

I love you beyond my update status

You can’t log in to my network

You can’t google my love

Or find me just a click away

You can’t define me

With your copied brainy quotes

My love has its own Wikipedia

Neither will you find me in your chats

Or see a glimpse of me on youtube

My love has its own eyes

Its own landscape

I don’t love you

Because you can poke me

Or tweet me day and night

I might not be always linkedin

But I have myspace

In your lovely heart

Which is tagged

To my heart, forever.

Childhood

I remember my childhood

When I used to be my playground

When I used to be my game

When nothing bored me

And happiness was never to be sought

It was.

"Tumhe ab bhi pyaar hai mujhse?"

Mai ghar pohancha to

Ghar ki saari cheezain

Khamoosh thi

Sivai aek kurse key

Jiss pe tumne aakhri baar

Baith kar

Apni nam ankhon aur

Umeed se pur aawaaz mai

Mujhse poocha tha

Tumhe ab bhi pyaar hai mujhse?

I have been cheating sadness long enough

I have been cheating sadness long enough
With all the tricks and manipulations
That life taught me
On the sharp edges of immanent experiences
Now I am done
Exhausted of all my cleverness, my love
Do come back
To cheat sadness forever.