Monday, 13 January 2014

Red Nail Polish

Jaanti ho...
Aaj
Tumhare choote hi
Tumhare khoobsurat
Haathon
Ki ungliyon
Ke naakhoono se
Utarti hui
Laal nail polish
Mujh pe chad gayi hai…

Mera wajood
Mukammal

Laal ho gaya hai

Lost Sailor

The curve of your lips
Is the map of my world
I travel
In search of twin stars
Of your eyes

Look!
Your sailor is lost again!
 

Waiting Outside Operation Theater

Every thought in my head
Falls prey to carnivorous fears
Bleeding colorless tears

After such long painful waiting
Even birds in cages
Doubt the strength of their wings

Outside the theater
Winter sets a cold wave
Freezing everything warm
Around us
Snow hides
All the gardens of hope

I look outside the window
Towards sky
For any small slit
In the dark clouds
To reassure myself
Of happy sunlight to pass through

I watch ghostly people
With white coats
Play God
I doubt my atheism
Towards them
I read their lips
I read their inanimate hands
When they speak to me
Like a clinician
I try to decipher any hidden codes

Eventually
After giving up
On their jargonised
Almost human-like reassurances
I come back
To the waiting room
To be fed again
By carnivorous fears
Bleeding colorless tears

Snow Is Falling

The snow
Of your kisses
Fell
whole night
Upon me

I woke up
In the morning
to the white splendour
Of your hugs

The kiss
Of your frosty lips
Declared
Winter for me

Love

Love is the only migratory bird

With four wings…

My Valley Is A Truthful Lie!

The beauty
Of my Valley
Blinds everyone
From the ugliness
That resides
Within the capillaries
Of its moving Chinars

Or is it the other way round?

It reeks
From the cracks of Dal
And disappearing Walur

But more often
It reeks
From the cracks
Of meaningless lives
And pretentious living...

My Valley is a truthful lie!

The truth of ugliness
It naturally hides
The lie of living
I carefully pretend

When Love Kills...


When love kills...
Life is the last thing to ask
Death is the least of the fears

When love kills...
Life and death
Become
Metaphors
Of an archaic poetry
Lost
In the yellowed pages
Of time

When love kills...
One gets killed
Forever...