वो एक पत्ती

वो उस शाख़ पर लहलहाती हुई एक पत्ती
वो उस लम्हे मैं क़ैद मेरी ज़िन्दगी

वो उस एक पत्ती पर अटकी हुई मेरी ज़िन्दगी
वो अधूरी दास्तां की मुक़म्मल ज़िन्दगी

वो बिना अस्तित्व के बिखरी हुई ज़िन्दगी
वो नीरसता में रंग भरती हुई पत्ती

वो कुछ न हो के भी वजूद से भरी
वो ज़िन्दगी को एक आस देती हुई कुछ सूखी, कुछ महकी सी पत्ती

वो ज़िन्दगी को ज़िन्दगी का रुख़ देती हुई
वो उस शाख़ पर अकेली लटकती हुई एक पत्ती

Cordial Accordance

I have become passive

The reason is not me, it’s your outlook

I have become unreceptive

The reason is not me, it’s your perception

Our relation has become flaccid

Reason is not me; it’s the way you deal

It has lost its meaning

The talks have lost the compassion

It has become mere the formality

I have tried, you have tried

To placate the strife

May be we could not strive more

And it may not grow

Let’s appease for the moment

Let’s conciliate and not retaliate

In anticipation of having the cordial accordance

We may return to the natural self

Of our relation

Of our togetherness

This may shrivel or may enhance

मेरा वो बरामदा

आज मेरी उस बरामदे की खिड़की से 

झांकती हुई धूप नहीं दिखती 

आज मेरे उस बरामदे के बाहर 

छाओं का साया है 

आज मेरे उस बरामदे के बाहर 

कोई शोर नहीं सुनाई देता 

आज मेरे उस बरामदे के बाहर 

चिड़ियों की चहचाह ही सुनती है 

आज मेरे उस बरामदे के बाहर 

कोई अनचाही परछाई नहीं आती 

आज मेरे उस बरामदे के बाहर 

खिलखिलाती मुस्कराहट है 

आज शायद उस बरामदे के बाहर 

पहले जैसा कुछ नहीं है 

लेकिन आज जैसा है 

उसमें उदासियों का सबब नहीं है 

वक़्त ही जानता है 

की हमने कुछ खोया 

या हमने पाया है 

अपनों को न छलने 

न दिल दुखाने की राह में 

हमने शायद और वक़्त लगाया है 

सही ग़लत की राह में 

लेकिन खुद को ही पाया है 

आज उस बरामदे के बाहर 

सिसकियाँ नहीं सुनाई देती 

छूटा तो है इन हाथों से कुछ 

वो वक़्त है या 

वो फिसलती हुई रेत का साया है 

बस आज उस बरामदे के बाहर 

एक सुकून भरमाया है 

Smile :)

Smile with me....

Smile that has seen it all

Be it large or small

That has struggled

Through spring or fall

That has fallen

Crumbled, Stumbled

And still stands tall

It has smiled through Tears

Travelled so many years

It has not yet lost 

And will not lose it all :)

Engraved in Hearts

We all have heard and read - A picture speaks more than thousand words. Though we might not have thought Words can speak multiple pictures or the multiple scenarios. Sometimes you just have to think on not so common lines and bring the real different world in and outside of you. Below is a poem which has three altogether different perspectives :) Read it first and then move to end for synopsis 

Where are you!

It’s been long

That my heart is longing for you.

Laughing with the laughter’s you brought

Embracing the moments we shared

Though it’s all in solitude

Without you by my side

Arid eyes, feeble voice

You have left me with no choice

Just lingers to the memories I have

The touch of yours that I forage

Days have passed, Nights have crawled

Where are you?

Far away, miles apart

In distance, in time

Or you are always there

Within me, in my mind

With all the passionate reminiscences

A single thought can bring

Listening to my prattle

Looking into my eyes

Whenever they dazzle

Hoping to be in your arms soon

Bounded by eternity

Engraved in hearts, Carved in dreams

Synopsis: 
Plot# 1 - the so predictable one from the picture as well as words - A couple struck in love are not together/separated for some reason, and the one is missing other person

Plot# 2 - Its the dream world of the girl where she is thinking about him and reciting these words - all in thoughts and imagination.

Plot# 3 - Unlike scenario 1 they are not separated and are still together in relationship. Though the guy is not with her for time being, that you can make out if you read it again - and the half of poem says you are still within me, every time in my mind.