र लफ्ज़ के कफ़न में मुझको पहचानो
बँधी है मेरी रूह मुसलसल रिवाज़ में
दाद देनी है तो ख़त्म करो मुशायरों को
अर्ज़ होगा वो जो है दबा कुछ लिहाज़ में
Betrayed in the nursery to dismay
Abandoned saplings in open furrows
The firm gait of deserting mother
Viewed from the overflowing eyes
The gong of the liberty for the day
Was equally awaited by her
As if she never reached home.
Nor did I return from her pyre
The river of her immersed remains
Still remains flowing from the eye
Flogged but unmoved- the mind
In wait of another glimpse
When I alight a stationary state.
Ludhiana
2355
21.05.26
00.04 hrs
The reverberation sprouts
Even before a word is sown
Within the margins of silence
When presumptions overflood
To spill out the afloat seeds
Moving above the furrows
Without a weight to touch
The anxious crevices in deep
They remain swollen like eyes
That are for long moist but unwept
Cracked in the shriveled life
Buried down without being sown
For before the word is uttered
The reverberation overcrorwds
The margins of silence.
Bhatinda
2354
20.5.26
00.25 hrs
The perched shine on a pane
Awaits the opportunity to infiltrate
When I turn my soul towards you
Your rays from afar dazzle the day
While lighting up the skies at night
With the resonance of your light.
The light sneaks in the fickle curtains
Even within the confined realms
The accomplice breeze aids to accomplish
These criss cross patterns on floor
Tampered evidence of the incident
To thwart these golden and silvery rays
There are curtains of the mind
Those too have their own shadows
Flowing from the stories untold within.
Delhi
2353
8.49 hrs
15.5.26