Contemplation

Misery and pain
Is that all?
Is it the rain,
Outside the wall?

Did you try?
Speak the truth.
Silence or circumstances or ego
What was the route?

Ask your heart
The price of denial
Loneliness and anger
Fall before the last mile

Closing in to the final words
Hands start shivering
Stay strong for victory
Winner shall get a losing trophy

I believed in angels
The angel walked past me
Cold, insensitive and stubborn
Human in reality

The days shall end soon
A tough night eternal follows
This incorrigible heart must surrender
Weeping quietly on the gallows.

Ek Kahani...

Ek teri kahani ek meri kahani
Thori si muskurahat thora sa paani
Har ehsaas ek anchua pehlu hai
Par daastaan hai purani
Ek teri kahani ek meri kahani

Do shaqsh hai anjaan se
Do raasate begaane
Tare hai ek taraf aur duji oor
Suraj ki pashaani
Dhundle aakash mein chehre hai kai
Dhoodhe kisse nigaahein ye meri

Ek teri kahani ek meri kahani

Mor hai majhdhar hai
Bandhano ki dewaar hai
Paimane ko kheech rahi hai ek dor
Magar saki bekhayal hai
Padh na woh ghazal kehti sham suhaani
Dohara de phir se wahi kahani
Ek teri kahani ek meri kahani.


Samundar ki girti leherein
Uthne ko betaab hain
Jab dard dawaa ho, Sunayee deti hai
Wohi awaaz mujassmo mein bhi
Ja ke poocha haqeemo se nuskha-e-dillagi
Kabr dar kabr afnsaane bayan kiye

Syaahi khatam, par iraada jatil
Likhoo nazaarna is yaraane ka,
Shayad wo bhi padhe meri jubaani
Ek teri kahani ek meri kahani