Monday, 21 October 2024

Her ways to my heart

 

Her waves of forgiveness

Submerge my acts of sin

My side often tilts with weight

Fot she skips her pan of balance

Only to be by my side as we beam

At the measure of this precise world

She often loses in her wisdom

Cheers at the victory of my follies

Her appreciation of my pettiness

Invites and inspires the courage

To overpower my little world .

Amidst all this strife within herself

She finds time to adorn her brow

To mask her sighs with a smile

Her shades on cheek ignite a dawn

And loose tress drowns a twilight

The butterfly on her bun flaps a dream

Knowing so much she feigns ignorance

Only to cover my lack of knowledge .

Yamuna nagar

2180

23.15 hrs

21.10.24

Friday, 18 October 2024

 ख्वाइश ए ख़्वाब है इतनी जनाब

कि इस फिक्र में ही तमाम रात जगे

बदनाम महफ़िल में शरीक क्या हुए

इलज़ाम ना लगे कि कोई इलज़ाम ना लगे


Wednesday, 2 October 2024

The debris


Devastated enough to fall
With a fortune to trudge
The mask has a mirror within 
That reflects the debris left behind 
Disowned and abandoned in the past
The ruined parts of desecrated self
Those I believed were invisible 
Concealed with my oversized shadows
But truth bursts through pretence 
Gushes out from feeble cracks
Rocks the stable ground with fury
Suddenly the world crumbles 
The reigning monarch kneels
The palace is lost amidst fading glitter
There is  nowhere to hide , nowhere to go
Once the pride of being myself corrodes.

Delhi
17.15 hrs
2179
2.10.24