Monday, 16 January 2012

Rain washed away everything


Rain has washed away all colors
And painted the city wet
Mud has spoken to my shoes
And moist is the air in my head
Tears are marrying rain drops
Sleep has divorced my eyes red
Sadness wore grey raincoat
Joy took shelter under my bed

All my poems are cold now
Cuddled up all behind my old books
I am all alone out here
Waiting for Sun’s warm looks.

Your love is the limit of my being


Your love is the limit of my love
I exhaust my being in you
To the very limits of my existence

I no longer remain sane
I swing between the borders
Of sense and senselessness

At time I sense
Even the whisper of a falling leaf
And at times
I am senseless
Even to the blazing fire in front of me

What have you made of me?

I part the river in two
And even find myself
Talking to you on the mountain top

You promise me flood
And make me build a ship
To be saved for you

What have you made of me?

You exhaust me in your love
Your love is the limit of my being
The limits of the limits of my existence!

Monday, 9 January 2012

"Sheene' Jung"

Tumhey yaad hai
Meri tumhari barf ki jung?

Tumney apne naazuk
Thand se magroor haathon se
Humari duniya jaisa
Barf ka aek gola
Merey seeney pe maara tha

Mai wo duniye
Apne seeney mai liye
Aaj tak fir raha hun

Ye soonch kar ki

Kabhi to muhabbat ka suraj nikley ga
Kabhi to mere seeney pe sar rakh kar
Tum
Mere wajood ki
Barf se dhaki duniya ko
Aek hi pal mai
Qatra qatra pigla do gi

Friday, 30 December 2011

Nothing without nothingness


Passing a day without you
Is no more than walking
Into a garden without flowers

A tree without leaves
A destination without roads
A painting without colors
A book without words
A mirror without images
A country without language
A forest without trees
A desert without sand

It’s like me –
Homesick without home.

P.S.: For someone who is thousand miles away, yet not so far from me...

Wednesday, 28 December 2011

From December to January


I lose the track of time
I don’t remember dates now
Day passes by like a stranger
Months fly away like autumn leaves

On the cold island of December
I am waiting on the ebbing shore
For you
To bring me my January
Along with the year too.

"You"


In the long winter nights
Of loneliness

"You"

Are the only candle
I warmly dream by

Friday, 23 December 2011

Half-widow


Come back my beloved, come back!

Oh my beloved
I am full of love for you
Why do they call me your half widow?
Our pillows are full
Of your smell and my lonesome tears
My nights are full
Of your warm memories
My body is full
Of craving for your touch and sight

The tree in our lawn
Is full with fruits
On that cold snowy streets
The cat that you saved
And put inside my warm phirin
Has learned to purr now

Your gifted roses
Have spent their full fragrance
Your love-scribbled letters
Have soaked enough
Of my sobbing nights

The rose on the cup you drank from
Hasn't been watered so long
By your lovely lips

The mirror has grown old
With my face full of wrinkles

The sticks of your kangri are coming out
As if they too are seeking you like me

The clock in our room has stopped ticking
It gave in one evening
When my tears were ticking faster than its hands

Your phirin is worn out and cold
Every night when I wear it thinking of you
Come back and sew it yourself

My eyes are losing sight
I keep losing marbles you collected
For our unborn child
I plead you in the name of my unborn child

Come back and find those marbles once more
The eyes in our mohalla are no longer friendly
Come back and make them friendly again
Doctors keep asking me,
“What is your problem?”
Come back and answer them yourself
Your mother gets angry
When she doesn’t find any signs of pain
On my face
Come back so I could show my heart on my face

Come back to take care of my widowed half