That night there was a shattering silence
Broken by faltering sighs
Your halting words
Tried to appease fate
A little too less and a little to late
And smiling like a venomous snake
Doubt slithered inside the gate
And now
Tonight
There is a shattering silence
As you, alone, lay wide awake
And when you can feel the sum total of life
Enshrined in a single heartbeat
When you can feel the drumming of your heart
Thundering in your ears
Pulsing throughout
A blood fire raging within you
Bursting to be let out
And yet
And yet
There is a calmness in your being
Like finding eternal peace
That is the day, my dear
When you can wake up and proclaim
That you are truly, hopelessly in love
Anything else just feels
A lot like love
But
A whole lot less.
What if we ran out of conversations one day
You know, the ones that keep us hooked late into the night?
The ones that make me crack up in delight?
The ones that make you beam at my very sight?
Would the world as we know it, still feel right?
Would the past talks of our future still shine bright?
What if we ran out of conversations one day
Would you still find yourself heading my way?
Aaj kuch aisi gaflat mein hai saansein humari
Kahin dil ki har ek hasrat mukammal na ho jaye
Wakt miley toh kal pooch lijiyega kaifiyat humari
Kahin aaj raat hum mustaqbil mein hi na kho jayein
And when I need shelter
From reality
Would you let me dip into
Your daydreams?
Never ask a poet
To describe you in a few words
For you see
We begin from a blank canvas
And create the perfect masterpiece
With layers of paint and oil
Catching the light as it falls on your face
At different times of the day
We build for you a background
Your most natural habitat
And then rest you amidst it
In the most striking of poses
Till you and the canvas
Are one
Never ask a poet
To describe you in a few words
For we wouldn’t know where to begin
Because art can neither be rushed
Nor confined to a few strokes
And you, my dear
Are poetry
Art in its purest form
You said you’d be mine
When dreams came to life
So I
I blurred reality a little for you!
You saw me swaying yesterday
And looked at me askance
There’s no music, you said
And threw me a questioning glance
But darling I was dancing
To the tune of wind chimes
To the rustling of the leaves
To the songs of nightingales
And to the gushing of the wind
There was music all around me
In more forms than one
And we’d have been dancing together
If you’d just bothered to feel
This poem was inspired by a quote I’d come across as a kid –
A question which sometimes drives me hazy : am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein
You don’t always have to run marathons
You just have to live longer
Live better
Live happier
And healthier
So hop, skip, jump and dance away
And don’t you even dare compare
Your lot with that of another
Be your own foremost lover
In a world that is burning
With humanity day by day waning
The wheels of injustice constantly turning
Man’s inner demons shamelessly unfurling
Poetry is my only succour
