Roses

I’m standing on the verge of death. White roses lie beautifully on the earth, As far as my eyes can perceive. I open my arms wide and play in the memories. Some dark, some dripping with gold, With a twinkle in my heart, And black …

Death

Sunflower fields, Bones beneath. I exist and I don’t. They exist and still don’t.

Never

Another gig, another dig, Till I’m empty. I run to outrun sadness. Who cares? Never you. Who cares? Never me.  A page too blank, An ink too black, Hold back. Burn. Diamond and glass, Who can tell apart? Never you, never me.  Center of labyrinth is a house. Homecoming is red. To hell or to not hell. Who …

I

I always wonder where my poems come from, Because I remember reading somewhere, “Out of nothing comes nothing”, And what am I if not a void in the space, And what I could be if I had the courage to not be.

Dominoes

It’s always like the dominoes. Build up their hopes tile by tile, Smile by smile, Promise by promise. And when you both are nanoseconds away, From dissolving within each other, Like colors into white, Snap! Falling one after another, Their emotions gives weird amusement to …

विरह

सारा कसूर उस सुकून का है जो तुम्हारे आवाज़ में छिपी है, आज भी उसकी ख़ातिर दर दर भटकती हूँ, किसी दर संभलती हूँ|

मुसलसल

जज़्बात तब भी थे, जज़्बात अब भी हैं, तेरे होने ना होने से इनका वजूद नहीं| तू था क्योंकी तुझे सुकून था, और मुझे सुकून से ऐतबार नहीं| तू नहीं क्योंकी एक इश्क़ था, जिसकी मौजूदगी का तुझे ख्याल नहीं| जज़्बात तब भी थे, जज़्बात …

सांझ

ख्याल तुम्हारा, ल्महा हमारा, ढल सा रहा है| दिनों बाद मुलाकात हुई है ख़ुशी से|

Under the starry sky

I was walking under the starry sky with my hands in yours. Just to realize moments after, ‘You’ was just an illusion, a soothing idea, a something gone with my happiness. I tried to touch the absent in a hope to make it real. But …