Friday, July 12, 2024

Kuch baat kahi. 

Kuch reh gayi. 

Kuch tum samjhi, 

Kuch bas keh gayi. 

Main ab bhi wahin khada hoon 

Jis mod se tum kab ki chal di. 

Shayad kisi dinn zamana laut ke aaye. 

Sochke maine apni kalam pakdi, phir rakh di.

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Aadhaa pauna karke joda hai

Sapno ka gullak bharne se pehle

Jaane kitni baar toda hai

 

Katra bhi mila toh ussay baata hai

Jaane kitne geele katron se bhara

Ye rookha sookha sa khaata hai

 

Armaanon ki lehar thi andar

Zidd thi ki jhook ke hi sahi

Apni khidki se bhi dikhe samandar

 

Zamane ki hasi ko

Jaane kitni baar

Hasi mein taala hai

 

Zindagi ki gaadi par letkar dekhe kayi taare

Toota jab bhi khahin ek

Aankh bandh maang liye saare

 

Tol mol ki zubaan aati nahi

Tumse hi hai saara vyaapaar

Ghaate mein bhi hai apni hissedari

 

Kahani meri choti si hai

Issay zyada soch ke na padhna

Ye bina soche smajhe hi ji hai

Tuesday, November 02, 2021

A look back 

I haven't travelled all that much 
Technically I have been only here as such 
Yet when I look back I see that I have come so far 
From that boy who used to write poems in the bar 

Today the setting is grand and the music is always great 
Most days I am even allowed to appear reasonably late 
Facials, face-masks, not a blemish in sight 
But so much goes into replacing that simple smile 

I wouldn't care much about (him) during the day 
It's the night where he leaves everything in disarray 
When I can't explain to the man without a dime to share 
How getting all that you want can be so unfair 



Thursday, July 13, 2017

meri baaton mein aksar gehrayi kum rahi hain
teri kahani mein meri maujoodgi hi kum rahi hain

waqt toh tha zindagi ke liye bohut mere paas
zindagi ki hi maangein hi kum rahi hain



Since I've started writing prose.
I've started quoting others more.  

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

गम है बिस्तर मेरा 
और दर्द है तकिया
जब भी बेफिक्री से सोता हूँ 
फ़िक्रें लेकर उठता हूँ



Monday, May 26, 2014

Sing

Don’t tell me what you saw
Don’t tell me what you heard
Just sing me a song
Like a little bird

About all the nice things
And day dreams
Make me a song
And make one about
All that went so wrong

Despair, crib, cry
Be a fool of your crimes
But don’t waste words
Trying to make them rhyme

Just sing at the top of your voice
Until the dogs come home
And when there is no one
Imagine me and sing alone

Don’t tell me what you want
Don’t tell me where you wish to be
Sing me to that place
And I shall know how it feels