The dormant vibrance of drops
On a dark and moonless night
Simmers with a dream on sea
Awaiting the wonted silver flame
Like a perky pulsation of broken heart
With memories knit on a frigid day
By the hope of another dazzling noon
Where prayers leap to conjure the tides
Such is the whisper of silence.
Delhi
2375
10.47 hrs
21.10.26
माँ बाप
घर में बच्चों की गूँजती आवाज़ों,
उनकी मस्ती की ख़्वाइश में
अक्सर मुस्कराते,ठंडी आहें भरते हैँ,
थोड़ी दूर भी जाने से कतराते,
उसमें भी हर दूसरे कदम पर ठहरते हैँ,
बेहद फ़िक्र से बार बार पूछते,
फ़िर भी पूछकर हमारे गुस्से से डरते हैँ,
हम रोते आये उनकी ख़ुश बाहों में,
वो खुशी से हमारी बिलख़्ती बांहों में मरते हैँ
ना जाने वो क्यूँ ऐसा करते हैँ.
जो जानते हमारा उनके बाद में हाल
तो शायद कभी मरते नहीं, कभी ऐसा करते नहीं.
Tu Hi Re
Silvery ray, silver ray,
my tides leap to play..
Come my way, light my way
Before tides drown in a bright day
When my horizon sinks, it carries a glimpse of you
Like a drop from heavens, falls to kiss a night long dew
Silver, ray..
One leap hatches another , these tides craft a chain,
The eternal longing for you forever, makes me go insane,
You descend from the peaks and plunge in horizon, the clouds see you coming ,
The stars twinkle with wonder and breeze starts humming,
Deep down, my world glitters with your sprkling ray.
Silver ray..
2374
12.38
11.10.26
Rishikesh
When the burden of time
Tugs the splinter to bed
There is hopeful buoyancy
To keep bulky logs afloat
The hope of a fresh morn
Quells the fear of twilight
For every spell is momentary
Hope prolongs the happy hour
And curtails our immense sorrow.
2373
30.9.26
18.35 hrs
Rishikesh
An Empty Choice
Parched for affection thus long
When the relief to the cracking thirst
Overweighs the pain of chapped feet
The trudge on glitter of pricking shards
The path till here reflects crushed ruby
Tinged by the oozing sap from within
Ruined despite the strife of thorns
Robbed of the little succulence
That the barren tepidity can render
Now the scanty drops ward off peril
Like a deserted toy saves the child
The stretched desperation of slithering soul
Finds the sparkle of an oasis from afar
Now the choice is to determine
Whether it is a vagary of mirage
Or the assurance of a promising drop
Whether the vapor of fleeing sweat
Or the sweet breath that flows from pond
What encalms the fury of sweltering breeze
Whether detour holding the vows of air
Or to meander on the overflowing sand
The twinkle of caravan is deceptive as well
For there is glitter all over the land.
Now the swarming storm threatens
Filling his footsteps in a blowing flute
It tars the golden sky to a charred night
When the sight is taken captive by dark
The quiver is a burden of vague choices
When one has to take an aim in pitch dark.
Enroute Ddun
2372
16.42 hrs
23.9.26
Entangled in the dense quagmire
Of intertwined pouring streams
The peace is breached every moment
For there is no escape to the word
That remains stifled within heart
For no one is ready to absorb
Amidst the ever emitting flow
Like a trapped limb in the deep
That shrieks to get liberated from the pain
The voice of the soul remains unheard
The gush from outside is so intense
That the hollowness within fails to resist
The signals of a sober world
Drags a wild will to forceful cage
The beast gets punished often
For being the way it always has been
By a demeanor that can be moulded
Then the wise resort to inhumaneness
To watch the wildness grasp their signal.
Enroute Lucknow
2371
17.46 hrs
21.9.26
