curiosity, concern, compassion and collaboration
dosti ki khatir khud ko khatm kar bhi do, to kya gam hai
lekin apni jado ko seenchaney ki kasam ka kya hoga
badlon ki vasiyat
ek sachhi si niyat
aur un sab aankhon mein
ubharey aansuo ki neenv ka dard
kya wo in sab se mit payega
lekin usko mitana hi kyun jaruri hai
sab kuchh saha hai, bahut saha hai
kya is liye chup rehna majburi hai
jab khamoshi ki aawaaj bahut unchi ho gayi
to fizaon mein achanak chuppi chha gayi
aur hawon ne bolna band kar diya
aur darakht saham se gayey
badalon ne sharm se aakash ki chadar audh li
aisye mein kuchh shabdo ne janm liya
lekin vivash ho, unki kokh ko kya hua
paribhashayen badli
barf si chattane pighli
lekin ek nadi ka dil ab adheer hua
samundra na sukh paya
lekin dhara ke sneha se
usney bahut saar bojh uthaya
the slimy frog slips again
and i wonder if the peptides will digest
all the stains of time on my fingers
tumhari nazron se maine dekha hai muhjko
chumbak ki bhati chhua hai sabko
kab kya jud gaya, kaisey bataun
kab kaun mud gaya, kisko jataun
jindagi ko aisey hi jiya hai mainey,
kuchh nahin sach mein kabhi kiya hain mainey
jo bhi hai, wo sab hua hai bas yun
mat poochho ki sakht hai darakht kyun
uski jado mein laga hai thoda ghun kyun
usney apni raakh ko pehley hi samarpit kiya hai kyun
the lamp post is tall, but i cannot hang myself on it
there is enough light,
lot of people will be willing to stand, and stare
and may be, express a bit of anguish
on a wasted death
but then i think the death can serve many purposes
and clasping the elusive goals
is only one of these
kai baar pehley bhi aisa hi hua hai
kuchh kehna tha, aur kuchh aur hi kaha hai,
lekin sach to yeh bhi hai, aur sach auron ne bhi kaha hai
lekin majbooriyon ko meri, na mainey hi mana
aur na hi unhoney samjha hai
jindagi ke raston par,
kuchh kadam saath chal kar, alvida mainey bhi suna hai
aur unhoney bhi suna hai
agar aakash tum apney haathon utha bhi lo,
to kya merey taro ko jagah wahan chamkaney ki mil payegi
tum agar machal ke thoda sneha maang bhi lo
to kya koi nadiya kinaron mein bas bandh bah payegi
snahpaash mein baandhne ki koshish mujhey na ho to achha hai
amarbel ke alingan se koi atma phir kab tak bach payegi
there was a little girl who did not know enough about saying no to any thing. If some body asked, will you smile, she will smile, if some body made faces, she would echo that. one day, another girl, let us call her kshama asked the little one, called by her family as shama( she was also fiery, tumultous in her temper and some times unpredictable), why do you respond in affirmative when people ask you things? shama said,” you know most people treat litle kids as robots, they know that we are not robots, but they still expect us to behave like the one. i sort of want to forgive these adults their naivette and thus just sort of oblige them!!:
Kshama was not convinced. she asked her parents about shama had told her and parent laughed loudly, and agreed that shama was very smart, if she said that.
next day, kshama asked shama, how did you figure this out. I never knew that. Shama said, you know, whenevr these folks used to see me as a toddler, they never paid attention to what i wanted, what i thought, whether i wanted silence or solitude, they thought a little girl is an object of fun, game, play and thus regardless of my moods and feelings, they wanted me to play act as they wanted. I was tired o f them but then if i did not do that, they just persisted and some times threw me in the air. i felt scared and they laughed. i decided to succumb, and give in, ah!!”
kshama was startled by this revealation. She had also gone through this but never told any one. Here was this little girl, shama who seemed to know it all. But then kshama thought, will she really learn any thing from shama when she had her baby. Even shama did not know,
what kind of adults this world produces, why donot they learn ever even such simple things?
shama has decided to start a school for parents to teach them how to deal with babies. BUt then she is too young still, is she…..
do i know really?
why do we learn some lessons
so soon to become cautious
and responsible
why not just be,
irreverent, irresponsible and undefined
but then how will the world deal with the chaos
that is not my problem, said the kid
who had been told thousand time to grow up
as if he wanted it, really
when journey is not just the purpose
it is life
moments stitched together by a fiber of soul
scattered all around us
though we search it under
microscope and complain when we can not figure it our
we go to the hill tops and look for it through telescopes
but the we do not clsoe our eyes and just stand
near the abyss
of nothingness