बरसता तू नहीं…..

हूँ शायद मैं तुझसे लापता,
या तू ही है दूर मुझसे,
बरसता तू भी यहीं है,
भीगता मैं नहीं हूँ फ़िर भी…….

नशा

कुछ अलग नशा सा है आँखों में उसकी,

मैं दूर जाता तो हूँ पर भी नही,

कोशिश कई बार की थी,

शब्दों में उतारूँ सीरत उसकी,

रात हुई,

हुई भोर भी अभी,

पर शायद क़ायम है बेपनाह उसका,

नशा इस मुलाज़िम पर आज अभी…..

रूह

धूँदता रहा था मैं कई चौखटों तुझे,

ना मिला भी तू,

शायद मिला भी मुझे,

लिखता तो मैं फिर भी था,

अल्फ़ाज़ों में रूह पर उतरी है आज तुझसे…..।।।।।

Baby

I can’t see with eyes wide open,

Baby hold me tight I am broken,

I fall if I try to walk,

Bruises all over my body,

Scars over my shadow,

I cannot hear,

Call my name,

Tell me it’s okay,

Be my eyes,

My ears,

Be my everything,

And nothing at all,

Come home baby,

I can’t see with eyes wide open……

हसरत

Underground

Far away

And as the city diminished,

Engine slowly revving,

Just the sound of wind through our ears,

And a song on our lips,

We remembered how it felt,

How everything should be felt,

Synchronous, easy, natural…..

रोशनी

रोशनी का भी क्या कोई मुक़ाम होगा,

ना जाने क्यूँ फिर ये रोशन कर जाती है कई सर्द रातें,

बेजान में फूँक जाती है ये बेबाक़ जान,

इल्म ही नहीं इसे शायद,

क्या मुकम्मल इसकी बाज़ुएँ हैं,

ये है तो सब है,

ये नहीं तो क्या है…..

Mist Air…..

She was slowly diminished from his memory,

The words, the skin and all the roses red,

A century might have passed since I saw her,

He exclaimed while he strolled,

Her smell, her touch and oh god that beautiful hair,

Lost in the shadows among the unnamed,

She was still there,

But nowhere here,

They say time heals the worst of all scars,

She was his time and he was her mist air…….

Night

As the night slowly descends,

The ghosts of the past,

The mistakes, the lost and the smothered,

The boy scared to his deepest bones,

Prepares himself for them,

Those that have chased him for eternity,

Hopelessness, despair and plight,

Everynight they come,

Sometimes shrivels him in his sleep,

Sometimes drop him to the trenches deep,

The boy scared and lonely,

Closes his eyes and tell himself each day,

This all would be worth someday,

For the night is not eternal,

For the plight is not eternal…..