Sunday, August 21, 2011

The other world

There exists a world
Beyond our own
Where crumbs of bread
Are worth more than gold
Where lives are at the mercy
Of mosquito nets,
Not car crashes
Where hope and despair
Coexist like brothers,
Where brothers coexist
In despair, and in hope
Where poverty has not taken 
The dignity of young folks
And mothers still aspire
Where our world ceases to grow
Theirs thrives endlessly.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

गुस्ताखी माफ़

गुस्ताखी माफ़, मेरे यार
तुम तो निकले गद्दार
प्यार करो शायरी से
और नोटों से इकरार?

Friday, April 08, 2011

A prayer

May this soaring inspiration
Never let my soul rest
Upon the ground of reality


May this determined vision
Never be interrupted
By trivial fears of the unknown


May this unwavering gaze
Remain fixated
On the infinite promise of the blue sky


May my conviction
In the endless possibilities of life
Never hide behind clouds of self-doubt

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Sunshine

Freeze
Freeze!
Freeze!!

Freeze in time
Freeze in space
Freeze in existence
Freeze this breath

Freeze this emotion
Both hope and anxiety
In blatant protest
Of time, the Almighty.

Freeze! before tomorrow
Seduces my sanity
Avalanche of change
Unstoppable reality

Expressions, creations,
Relations thrive,
Ideas spring
In my mind

I grasp, I gasp
I capture some,
To shadows of nostalgia
Will my 'present' succumb?

Freeze now!
Don't let them take
What is rightfully mine
Rescue from time,
Today's sunshine...