GONE

The bed is made on your side
and the curtains are drawn
the oxygen's missing
and death seems nearer than dawn

deaf-tones seeping from bleeding walls
are but echoes of the broken falls
empty vases and charred remains
are remnants of how far this longing's spanned

the dust on the shoes is now rust
the flame is the desires has long turned ash
the rain has long stood guard to my moist eyes
coming down each time to see me
when I feel lonely without your lullaby's

like a traveler you've join back the race
leaving behind an essence of an embrace,
an empty frame and a pair of numb hands
are not half as painful as the never ending nights

rise, like the phoenix and sail in my direction
and teach me the real magic of painting smiles
the necromancy you can accomplish
is dearer to those living out lies 

I could write a thousand words today about a hug

sing a million why you should be mine
holding a few pieces of my heart in my hand
I close my eyes to turn back time

if you know how much of yourself you left behind
you'd come back for me, and change my world 
one more time the way you had done
the magic in this might
will reunite all that customs had to divide

or call me, a hopeless drifter, in your direction
like a bag of plastic, weightless I've floated for long now
or come and stub out this bag of bones
for one last touch from you death will wait...

Prolong

Slow down and

breath a while

you've been many places

that have robbed you off your smile

Breathe now

and live out a memory

sing for what's your

and dance in this moment's harmony

tender and young, your mind

is just like your heart

far you've come, away from home

just to make a brand new start

walking along, you met some 

strangers on the way

some familiar faces

and other that made home seem far away

you're exceptional in your speed

but innocent in your eyes

the world couldn't have been cruel place 

not from your eyes...

you've music in your blood

that makes everything around sing

you've a rhythm in your living

and that's the beauty you bring

I cannot tell you the value of love

cause in many ways you live it

everyday in the way you live

I stand in a corner and see you fly

away from all the trappings

of a young butterfly

you soar high into the sky

and come down to rest at will

leaving behind all those jealous

and spilling the honey of love

but life is not only a garden of roses

and even those flowers have thorns

life is like a mountain, that's hard to climb

but give it time and you'll get to the top soon

and then you'll see the whole world shine...

you are tough, and stronger than most

and everyday you fly far from your coast

and mingle with birds from another sky

in the hope of finding your true identity

discovery is your true love,

and for your true love you wait,

patiently and lovingly

touching everyone along the way

I know you like looking the sky

in the hope of finding your own star

I wish someday

you find one just like you...

beautiful inside out

and shining for even those unknown to you 

your sweet core is your inner smile
but unlike most you have a soft exterior too
crumbly but not melting
you are a tough cookie...

lighting the path of others

before shining some on yourself

far you will go, I pray

if only, you love yourself,

and set yourself free...

उड़ान 

दूर है अभी मंजिल

सांस फिर क्यूँ 

भर आई है 

इतनी तो गुजरी नहीं उम्र 

यादों में बन जो 

आँखों से मुरझाई है 

 साकी भी अभी फलक से दूर है

दूरी उसे भी कहाँ मंज़ूर है

शिद्दत मैं लेकिन अपनी 

हर इंसान को गुरूर है

मैं तोह अपने पंखों में उलझा 

नदियों में बहता 

बातों में ढलता 

चलता नहीं हूँ

दुनिया भागती है

फिर रुकता नहीं हूँ

सांस भर आती है 

इधर से उधर से
राहें बुलाती हैं
क़दमों के निशान तो हैं
पर ज़िन्दगी फिर भी बाघी है 

कितना दूर भागा
और किस्से भाग पाया
अपने साए में लिपटा
बस एक भीगा एहसास

पंख अब खुले हैं
उड़ने को खुला आसमान है
अभी जो ज़मीन से उठा हूँ 
क़दमों के बाकी क्यूँ निशाँ हैं 

Toast

what gets a teetotaler to drink?

an ecstasy unimaginable

or a life on the brink

a whiff of love, or a morbidness coy

think of it as you may

but when the glass of wine

sips the lips

the reasons begin to fade away

and all love flows through wet eyes

melting the layers of pretense
lowering the guard,

the truth forever slipping through alibis

Poetic almost,
for if  anyone deserves to know

then its this caged bottle of wine,

with every sip it takes me in

and with every note

I gain myself unhinged

drinking they say makes you free
brings out the pain,
or let love become glee

Its an open road,
that can led you down
or let you fly

open some closed chapter
or raise the ones invisible
to the insipid eyes

my ecstasy was hindered to none,
or to be drunk on the name of one
covert and hidden in my mind's eye
bottled up, and sealed for any pry

And then I tasted this potion
the one that changed my notion
and even if for a moment 
it made me live out my dreams

I tasted your lips divine,
a candid ecstasy uncorked
with the whiff of wine

The melted candle
that kept burning like the night
igniting the long-locked emotions,
turning on the light..

You cannot know my love for you,

Even on the verge of death

I would go down gladly with a smile,
praying for you...

but before we grow old

I wish for us to not turn shy

lift this glass,
even if from a distance

and raise me a toast

to the banality; a roast

on the edges of the glass

my life turns round

with my hands locked in yours,

a pleasure unwound

these tiny sips spirit my desire

inch you closer

or simply take me higher

up where you sit

smiling your mischievous smiles
laughing at my misery
as the joys begin to fade after a while

I wonder after sipping the brew
if my life changed, or simply I did
by unlocking the bottle,
and that part of you in me

Either way, soon it will be a trend
to reach out to you my love
even if through the eyes
of my new found friend...

I need more intoxication now

before reality wins
Open arms lingering in wait
and a mind open towards sin...