Fleeting

Meeting and greeting

often in haste

a bittersweet symphony

for the longing to remain chaste

Of desire, you can speak at will

in denial there is eternity

wanting to stomp every decree

before it becomes an overkill

When I close my eyes
the lights go off

but in  the background
the noise refuses to dim

just like the moments you saved
when you stopped to look

are the ones 
that did you in

life moves fast, so fast at times

I hold myself to steal some time

nestling under the moist look on your face

I turn my back to what we leave behind

there are moments
when I become pure
hide my profanities
and become my very cure

but these moment are rare
rare as your sight
like so many things you are to me
a fleeting glimpse of my might

a rose that neither withers
nor loses its sheen
I run away from reality 
when it begins to drift away from the seams

No, I'm not dying or drifting away
but the epic ending is far from sight
even as these passages
become clearer by the day

a final journey into my being reveals
the very details only you managed to steal
the frosted glances deep in your soul
that I best remember as my living days

Sure

We love from distance

because we're sure,

we love despite resistance

because we couldn't be anything

or anyone anymore

The care is lasting,

our love is a storm

There ain't a nightmare,

we can't take head-on,

we've been reckoned this way...

From the sultry nights

to the dizzying heights

keep me sane from the maddening flight

that is you and I...

We love from our might,

a form or shape peculiar to world's gaze,

smirking at the horizon,

making merry in this haze

You and I have a story to tell,

and we'll tell it right,

swinging back and forth in measured paces,

oblivious to any fright,

we'll get there alright...

What you are to me,

no one will ever know

an infinitesimal energy,

a bundle of hope, a resting place

Oh, death will come to me slow...

all the secrets of this life I now know

Marching fervently in tepid directions,

and reaching out for the impossible life,

spreading thin the sorrows,

wafting out the realities too,

and dreaming till it's daylight

Oh, the nights hang in wait...

curling up in all directions

as you and I are kept at a distance

the wait gets unbearable at times

as reality gets too hard to take 

So you see,

I wait for you on the other side,

at the cusp of the circumference

where light illuminates those virgin grounds,

where rasping voices sing solemn blues,

and memories yield more than teardrops...

flying as we go,

right past the rainbows' hues

playing our own tracks,

as life takes cues... 

अंत

कुछ यादों से जुड़े

कुछ लम्हों में खड़े

ज़िन्दगी से कुछ खफा
कुछ तुम पे अड़े

चुप रहकर ज़रा

किया अपने गुस्सा का एलान
जब तुम्हरी ख़ामोशी ने
किया हमें परेशान

वक़्त था वो कठिन
कुछ घड़ियाँ नाफरमान
बिखरते कुछ लम्हे
और कुछ हम नादान

एक अंतर्द्वंद
जिसमे हिम बागी थे
एक कश्ती जिसके हम नावी थे

अच्छे और बुरे का अंतर
कठिन समझ पाना था
दिल में बस एक ही गूँज थी
कुछ कर दिखाना था

मन में था विश्वास
कदमों को मंजिल का आभास
रुकने में था झुकने का डर
गिर के बिखरने का डर

ढूंढे एक ठिकाना

जहाँ न सिफर न बसर

पहुँचने के लिये जहाँ

हमें तो बस चलते जाना

आदतों से आदि
खुद ही लिखते गए अपनी बर्बादी
और चुप रह कर जब न बनी बात
तो लफ़्ज़ों से भी कर दिया आगाज़

तुम से ही शुरू 
तुम से ही आबाद
मेरी ज़िन्दगी की आखरी कड़ी
और हम एक कैदी
अपनी  बंदगी से आबाद