Far from you

I've been alright
dark and silent
hiding in the closet
far from you
and close.

Stumble upon me
searching solace
come inside the closet
far from you
to me.

Come, return

For how long will you hurt me
when you say that you cry in sleep
in dreams,
leave this punishment for me;
Come, return to me
now the flowers are falling.

Look into you
you are waiting for my touch,
for how long will you hurt yourself
now the flowers are falling.

Hold out your hands
let me come into them,
I have collected for you
the last few flowers;
Come, return to me
now the flowers are falling.

Consumed

A face naked with mirth
hailing the torrents of lust
exhileration shreiks at walls
falling to the gust.

Mere shabd..

Meri kahi baaton ke arth jab kho jaayenge
mere shabd tumhare paas sahara paane aayenge.
Samet lena mere shabdon ko zahan mein tum
log tumhe meri har baat bhulana chaahenge.
Dhoondh lena mujhe apni kisi kitaab mein
kuch bhoole huye shabd tumhe ab bhi mil jaayenge

No particular thoughts..

1. So much I have written on love and loss
Now I really love the candy floss.

2. You come rushing into my heart

I fall a little, one more part.

3. All that happens is for good they all said

Reading it in your message, I doubt you too have fled.

Being a Butterfly

Look into the eyes of a falling star
you will not find love

that lasted a lifetime.

Butterflies wake up

to fill colors in the air.

Hold a color in your hand

you can be a butterfly.

The butterfly can choose to fly

away from a spring

about to whither

or it can spread the wings

and fall like a star

A dark mind

An angel rushes through my mind
floating with the waves,
I look outwards to find the love
it hides in darkest caves.

Tea & Coffee

I like coffee beans

dark, strong

always biased.

Do you see

your leaves of tea

flying with the eskimos?

A certain end

If the end is certain,

should there be a start?

We live,

then we part.

Your smile meets me

around now barren corners

of my room.

Last day of love

did it really come

or we just drifted away.

But this was meant to be

and we knew;

still we met,

me and you.

Road to take

I stand divided by my heart

not knowing exactly where to part.

My keep

my pain is my own

my selfish keep
i want it not to reduce
by sharing with the else..

and it burns inside me
like a passionate candle light

Incomplete

You left
and the things remained same
or maybe they changed..
there wasn't much to care.
Life moved on
with few dreams and shadows,
you never returned..
I like to believe you tried.
I don’t complain
you left enough memories
and few things..
I could feel you.
Love is
so beautiful
so incomplete.

Bottles

Playing the stars
in sky that was ours,
laughing and cursing
reliving the wars.

Singing same song
all night long,
making the answers
for things gone wrong.

Crazy you, hazy I
sober on a high!

Against the Poet inside Me

Decorating cries for my words' promotions,

Why do I exploit my emotions?

Rage

Few thoughts I would share with you
tell you what its like to hide
the closets inside are dark and moist
hands touch the walls and return.

Innocence was beautiful once.

Listen when I talk, care 
don't create my monsters.

Tough Customer

Imagine the smiles of tresspassers
sneaking up the stairs that u made 
to hear you sing the lullabies
when dreams you nurtured begin to fade.

Life sometimes is difficult to persuade
breaks and cuts like the blade.

Remake Me

I have been scattered, been the dust
shunned by sun, ripped below crust;
collect all pieces, put me in a frame
remake me human, give me a new name.

Don't try to read through my eyes
all you'll find is old goodbyes;
make my home, make me stay
goodbyes are gone, make me say.

Make a Home

Make a face,
with fingers trace;
speak a sound,
hear it around.

Make a smile,
hang it for a while;
speak a thought,
say a lot.

Make a dream,
live in a stream;
speak a night,
with dim light.

Make a home,
a place to roam;
speak a prayer,
and stay here.

beside the falling star

The star that is sailing by,
can i catch it if i try?

won't there be a reason for tide?
a religion to see or a religion to hide..

the fear of society for they may cry
call me an atheist and make love die;
will the star still care to fly
to be with me in a new sky?

Mountain Evenings

As the smiles of sun settle down on the river
a wind begins to seduce the trees
mist spreads into the silent mountains
we listen to the sounds of returning bees.

As cold weather tries to bring us together
we wait by the fireplace, staring into coal
some crackles fly with dissolving resistance
we move slowly, consuming the soul.

If we could

Make waves with our hands
Let our words become rain
Touch the shores of fellow hearts
Fall into the smiles during pain.

Trapped

Dreams float in calm waters
Flights of the heart stay grounded
Images of the sun lay scattered
I live in a jar, all surrounded.

The proposal

I've seen you flowing like a river,

very lonely for a very long time.

Reluctant you pass underneath the bridges.

Come into me, I am the cloud

I will carry you into the mountains.

We will melt in the rains.

Dreams of a poet

Magicians of the wind

play with my fingers

I clear up my mind

but a thought lingers.

Light disappears into me

forests of rays lay bare

I glow like halo

an object of stare.

I weave the fabric 

and make fireflies 

wear it like the king

and flow to the skies.

I run into the stars

and they try to hold me

I turn into the waves

and they unfold me.

Lovers

We were like the warriors once,

poets of the earth.

We were like the poets once,

warriors of the sky.

Let us return to old glory..

We shall make a rainbow,

we shall make the rain bow.

Lust..

Consumed mouths
giving in must
Love bites
on gleaming crust.

Molten dreams
in cocoa dust
Chocolate
dark like the lust.

:)

Once upon a smile.

there was a time.

From the other side

I have arranged and rearranged
all the colours and patterns
when a eye has looked into my room.

When I look out
the glass takes the world far away
all hazy, and busy.

Sitting inside the kaleidoscope,
the view is not so colourful.

A Little At A Time

You kept them all open

the windows for the sun,

it came with the clouds.

Love is not a wanderer.

Let us take the moon,

a little at a time.

Such Inadequacies

Once I had two hearts,
Or maybe two parts..
Never bothered much about the details,
But now when each love fails..
I wish it was true,
I had hearts two,
Each with parts too..

khumaar...

khumaar tha...
beshumaar tha...
hum they or thoda sa shaayad pyaar tha...

tormented sun

The night dancing on the periphery of soul
and hand moves up to touch the face..

the mirror reflects a tormented sun.

The wanderer

I have wandered long into the nights,
returning into the withered sunshine
when dreams I created chased me away,
and then I have wandered long into the day.

To keep a little sun

If the sun decides to break in two parts,
will you keep one for yourself my neighbour
and i shall hide mine too..

I will use my part when you sleep
and you will do the same i think,
but when shall there be night, can you tell..

The space we have is not enough
to keep a little sun, and live alone..

Let the world keep a half my neighbour
we can share one piece alright..
there has always been a common day.

The sun shall not be divided by us..
Under it we will plough this earth together,
and the trees of our forefathers will smile.

barsaat

kal raat-bhar bheega main

shuru shuru ki iss barsaat mein

mere zahan tak bheega maik

tere khayaal sang bheega main.

aangan mein khada rahkar

sirf tera naam lekar

tere naam sang bheega main

kal raat-bhar bheega main.

dheemi dheemi si hawa thi

khushboo teri laa rahi

har saans tak bheega main

tere ahsaas tak bheega main.

barsaat se kaha tha maine

tujhe bula kar le aaye

tere intezaar mein bheega main

kal raat-bhar bheega main.

in the rain.

The air drifts easy

all earth is busy,

let me walk away

quietly from this world,

in the silent gust.

I'd waited for long

for the rain to come along,

let me fly away

to inhale purity,

in the dissolved sky.

Rain is falling down

I want to drown,

let me fall away

and then disappear,

in the forsaken time.

Sliding drops of pain

i feel against window pane,

let me melt away

there's no one to see,

in the wet earth.

Water splashes over my face

life exists at different place,

let me fade away

with this rainy night,

in the black clouds.

Rain has called me

to meet my destiny,

let me pass away

without telling this life,

in the rain.

"To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks."

Ruskin Bond

Where I Live

There was a life that you lived once..

in the comfort of hills

and my arms.

Romancing to the music of night

bluemoths and the fireflies..

were like you and me.

The clouds came so close

it rained into our verandah..

and you would dance.

I still live there

in the hills and clouds..

with bluemoths and the fireflies.

Unfelt

Not in love

Naked in bed,

She wondered 

What came first,

Loneliness or lust.

Fly

In the clouds that once rained,
I want to fly.

Let us grow wings my fellow traveller,
or hitch a ride with the birds.

In the last horizon, the clouds sleep;
let us fly.

Aromatic Chants

There is an aroma in the mountains that remains in the heart of a man. Aromatic Chants.. thats what a friend called it.. and it is about the closest.

Rajnigandha

A fragrance that fluttered

into the wings of light

travelled from the stars

into the flowers of night.

Rain!

Sweet nothings playing in the heart

The sound of glass filled with rain

I smile at the wind as it carries earth

I laugh with the clouds, some say insane!

A Longing

Once it rains
I will sing you songs
of dehradun
and the leechi trees.

We have lived far for long
far from the mountains
and a river
that overflows in the monsoons.

This year let us return
to the mountains
to dehradun
once it rains.