मुसाफिर 

चल मुसाफिर 

चला आ यादें समेटे 

इस छोटे से दिल में 

दुनिया समेटे 

सपनों का क्या है 

चल चला चल वादे समेटे 

तेरा यहाँ क्या 

क्या तेरा यहाँ हैं 

मिटटी में मिटते

सारे निशान हैं 

पानी पे बिखरे तेरे लफ्ज़ 

सिमटते कहाँ आशाओं में 

काली से वो रातें जो थी 

उनके पार जाना है 

किस्से हैं कितने 

कितने मक़ाम हैं 

बैठा जहाँ तू 

मंजिल वहां है 

चल राहों पे जिसकी

मंजिल न कोई 

महफ़िल बटोरे

कितने खड़े हैं

कितनो की तुने 

दुनिया है जोड़ी 

दुनिया कितनो की 

तेरे कदम हैं 

मुड मुड के चल तू 

गिरे तो संभल तू 

आँखों को मूंदे

सांसें निगल तू 

चलना है तुझको 

पीछे हैं साए 

आंसुओं से आगे 

कदम जहाँ तेरे ले जाए

Distance

I’ve held you here

Up, close, let you become dear

And, you have let me grow

Sowed the seeds of love

Without letting me know

Long and unhindered have been our seasons

Undivided have been my joys

Compounding with each day of your grace

And growing from the longing of the night

Little aberrations of your absence

I’ve lost sleep over

Little moments of distance

Have led me to forsake

Oh, but this new obstacle in our course

Is harder than anything we’d ever had to shake

Your absence douses my lonely heart

Oh, the pain of knowing it from the start

The sacrifices you’ve had to make are many

Like the moments that keep me going

In your longing, I embrace

The feeling of not being far….

The promises you’re yet to keep

The love I’m yet to give or receive

The life that is set to renew

Is all that I’m looking for when I look up...

The last days, the curled up smiles

The simmering moments in the days rushing by

All too dear, with a pinch of salt I keep

As I close my eyes and let dreams sweep...

With the promise I no longer weep

With the hope I sometimes sleep

With the longing; my eyes still know

I’m not far behind, wherever you go

Distance makes those loved fonder

And leaves many verses like this incomplete

For the journeys are us as much as we are them

Like these blank pages waiting to be complete…

Vendetta

Sitting cosy with closed eyes

rhyming thoughts with alibis

mixing ambitions with free will

planning to journey up the hill

A desire that reeks desperation

a moment for meek admiration

outliving the fear and consternation

the overkill of constant aggravation

The feeling of sanity in true

the hope of starting all new

the joy of feeling no pain

and rising to stake the claim

A momentary lapse of reason

almost betraying the cusp of treason

philandering with weak incisions

made deep into the being of my soul

Not knowing when to say no

or saying anything at all

among blind scores I'm heralded

and in silence it takes toll

Deposit the sum you're here to pay

or inherit the agony and the merits of the sway

run as you may these roads are hollow

no reasons really, we're just born shallow

Fill the stem of logics, do repair

the constant bouts of conscience, too are getting there

and deep in thoughts I push to keep

every quiet moment that weeps

Is growing old the same as growing cold?

I don't think it'll chill the vineyard within

the fruits of my agony would best know

when equated with the years that show

In this part of the country it doesn't often snow

no deserted streets or places you wouldn't know

yet stranger tides rule this town

and cover you with shades black or brown

Changes are here and changes will flow

of the things I keep, I'll make sure I don't let go

and in vain, some with reasons will know

all that I keep is all that I know

When it comes to the core

we're all strangers, unaware, far away from pure

the sun perhaps runs too deep

and yet there ain't no sunshine you can keep

So think not, time will not pay

the heart is in its place and mind is in its race

and with no destination, we're destined to obey

ask no more just walk the day...