याद कर लिया तुमने...

ज़रूरत से यादों का सफ़र यूँ तो है छोटा,
पर शुरू होने में देर लग जाती है अक्सर...
तो करो इंतज़ार ज़हर उतरने का रगों में,
इंतज़ार लम्बा है और दर्द भी उतना होगा,
महसूस कर पाओगे सिर्फ तुम मगर,
इंतकाम मेरा बहुत मीठा होगा।
दर्द से दर्द नहीं मिटता, मुस्कुराना भी ज़रूरी है,
इंतज़ार लम्बा सही मगर फासला छोटा होगा,
याद जब कर ही लिया तुमने ,
क्यों सोचते हो अंजाम क्या होगा...

I Have

I have....

love to give,

a dream to share,

a life to live,

some pain to bear.

a need to grow

and take it slow

reasons to believe

and reasons to know

doubts in mind

a past behind

lonely hours

and love to find

aimlessness and confusion

a search for solution

hatred and ego

love and let go

violence and destruction

kindness and construction

God and Devil

a Libran mind

no friends and no enemies

a lot to learn.

घर आओ

लिख तो दें कुछ उसके लिए अगर ग़ज़ल तस्वीर बन जाये
जान दे दे उसके लिए जो अपनी तकदीर बन जाये
पर सूखे हुए आँसू कोई कहानी कहते नहीं
उन आहों के तूफ़ान भी अब बहते नहीं
खूबसूरत आँखों में हम ने देखें हैं पत्थर
दरिया उन सेहरा में अब रहते नहीं
भूलो सब, इस ग़ज़ल को गले से लगाओ
मेरे लफ़्ज़ों से आज तुम एक तस्वीर बनाओ
दोस्ती के रंग भरो उस में
खुशियों की महफिल में उसे सजाओ
रास्ते में मिल जायेगी मोहब्बत
ले कर उसे अपने घर आओ...

A Glass a Time

Sip the life from the glass of eternity,

One glass a time to immortality

As you know, forever is a long time

So take time for my silly rhyme

One glass a time...

I loose count of time

May be I am wasting time

But I can take only one glass a time.

Filled with love and ennui, I move

Selfishly seeking the answers to company

And solitude...

Looking for the one in two

And the two in one

And the one in many

And the many in one

Looking for a purpose

And myself...

Taking a glass a time

Writing my eternal rhyme.

The friends I write are the ones I have

The marks I still call words

Talk to me, jeer and smirk

They come and they come..

The lonesome pages welcome the wound, the tatoo and the mark

And they come...

The pages fret; the words don't care a dime

I only watch taking one glass a time..

Dawn

O dark shadows of dark nights,

I await the dawn of equal light....

Darkness seeps through every soul

Minds all I see as restless as ghouls

Brotherhood of men I fail to see

Whilst darkened vision of mine strives to be.

The moon I had, the candles I burnt

But both wane, soon I learnt

Now darkness disturbs

A meaningless existence perturbs

The moon has gone, no stars I see

So O lamp post of the east, let it be.

Knowledge, love and God are same,

So, O dawn my dear, take any name!

Come. come end this night

I await you O dawn of equal light.

A Warsong

Arrows rain and limbs fly
A war rages as millions die
And here I go all alone
My sword merciless, my face of stone
Darting eyes, reflexes so fast
In this bloodbath the one who can last
My men by my side, looking proud
Taunting the enemy, shouting aloud
Like a hawk sword falls and devours
With every step more blood pours
And I think of my love in moments of respite
A smirk on my face from memory of the light
But, alas o fate, who I thought was mine
Today poisoned my glass of wine
I knew but still I drank in flow
When there is no love in life then where to go
I looked for remorse in those beautiful eyes
I looked on the angel face for look of lies
"I am strong, so for today I will last,
but my love, your days are going to end very fast.
I may kill you before I die
But just tell me love, why.."
Your sad eyes just evoked fear
Still no trace of regret, in your eyes no tear
You just took a dagger and plunged in your heart
And smiled and said, "My dear, here we part".
No answers, no question left to thee
No more, no more any reason to be
So one last battle before I die
My dear I come for I need to know why
Where did I lack in love for thee
Why did you do this to me
Million question not a single answer to quiten the rage
I burn like a young tiger in a cage
So I kill and kill and kill an I kill
But the poison will soon make me ill
And I will fall in this rain
Oblivious to glory or pain
I am the hero, the warrior, the king
And I am the damned with this wedding ring
So to hell I march, I ride this flood
Tears in my way mixed with sweat and blood
Die foes of my land, with me you die
Die before my life passes me by...

Love Is Near

Take your silence and take it away
Come to my heart to find a way
Things you feel and things you know
Only love can know, only love can know

For the one who has seen far above
He may tell you what is love
But no words can teach you what it is
To love is to know what love is

Sitting behind a dam of fear
To burst it just takes a tear
To bring in an inevitable relief
Of faith, innocence and belief

The cold that binds the ice in doubt
Will never know what warmth is all about
But will melt in face of a loving smile
To find the sea in a while

But, Alas! O Lord how I cry
To see some lives passing by
Lonely and only with doubts and fears
Beautiful souls stained with tears

For a soul frozen or caged or lost
Nothing in the world it will cost
To believe in love when it comes by
To stretch their wings and fly
For love is near if they only try..

Who Am I?

Meditating on a world of lie
I wonder who am I
Of roles I do, the games I play
Of things I do, the lies I say
Of truth and love and God and me
Or lies and hate and all that you see
A saint, a sinner; nay, just a lover
The valiant hero running for cover?
Who am I, yes, that's what I ask from me
Who am I, only I can tell to me..
But who is to say what and how
What is there is, is only now
A moment of peace, of love and us and we
A moment for which we could be
Or is it a fight till the end
Battered and beaten till we bend
Till we scream, till we die
Till we love without asking why?
So here I go with the breath of a sigh
Someday I will know who am I...