Love, I Ran After...

Charing Cross Road, 1937 by Wolfgang Suschitzky

Is it all we had?

Affection, love, joy

Where is it now we that shared?

Eyes as big as yours

Remember, I wanted to drown in

Dive in the love I called 'first',

Talks as sweet as yours

Intoxicated I was at every syllable

I wonder it was the love-nectar.

We held hands often

Clenched each other's emotions

Stole a touch, here & there

Hallucinating was the love

I, hypnotized to a world

Completely different, completely new.

Today, It's as if I woke up

The world once again, completely new,

A world devoid of you,

Unbearable, unfathomable

Excruciating desperateness 

A pain so dark, inside me .

Yet, I wonder

What goes inside you

Your eyes notice any of it!

Or, was I just a ripple in the rain

in a world grey and black

Was I the one running blindly

on a road slippery!

Whatever it was,

"It" stays in my heart

Imprinted on my soul

To go away with my ashes....

P.S.: Penned for the image prompt provided by Magpie tales, Mag 300. 

गुजरता वक्त...

वक्त के साये में

सदा ही रहते हम,

लगता हमें कभी है काबू

और कभी बेकाबू

बस इसी जद्दोजहद में

जीते हम लोग। 

किसने क्या पाया

क्या अधूरा सा रह गया

जा रहा साल कराता ये हिसाब,

नहीं कभी कोई रहता हर पल 

होना ही है फ़ना एक दिन सभी को 

इंसान या वक्त। 

विदा हुआ वर्ष जो कल तक था 

हमारा अपना 

आज बाहें फैलाए हम मचलते 

नव वर्ष के लिए,

क्या नहीं तड़पता जूना वर्ष 

छोड़ उसे दिया हमने बस घड़ी की इक सूई पर। 

नहीं नहीं! वक्त नहीं रुकता कहीं पर 

हम भी साथ चले तो पाएंगे स्वप्न,

जो खड़े ताकते रहे

रह जायेंगे हो कर बदलते वर्षों का शिकार 

आओ, करे ये वर्ष अपने नाम

सिर्फ अपने ही नाम!

छोड़ सब व्यर्थ के बोझों को 

ले अपने कंधे पर स्वयं का सार्थक बोझ 

बुने नए स्वप्न,नई अभिलाषाएं

जोड़ कर हाथ ले ईश्वर का साथ 

और मिला कर हाथ करें जी-तोड़ मेहनत 

बस फिर हर वर्ष खुशियों के नाम 

हमारे और हमारे अपनों के नाम!

Wishing all my readers and visitors a very happy 2016. Dream big and work hard.

Image Source: Google Images

Yay! Good start of the New Year...This poem was selected by Blog Adda as one of the best for Tangy Tuesday Picks, edition dated January 05, 2015.!

ये ख़्वाहिश है मेरी...

भीड़ में रहकर भी सबसे जुदा 

सितारों के संग रहकर भी चाँद बनूं 

ये ख़्वाहिश है मेरी ...

 

राहों में रहकर भी राहगीर नहीं 

पानी में बनती बिगड़ती लहर न हूँ

ये ख़्वाहिश है मेरी ...

 

काटों पर चलकर भी दर्द न हो महसूस 

आँसूंऔ में रहकर भी इक मुस्कराहट बनूँ 

ये ख़्वाहिश है मेरी ...

 

समंदर के करीब रहकर कोलाहल नहीं 

वरन उसके भीतर का गाम्भीर्य बनूँ 

ये ख़्वाहिश है मेरी ...

 

शोर के बीच गरज नहीं 

वरन उसके बीच की नन्ही ख़ामोशी बनूँ 

ये ख़्वाहिश है मेरी ... 

 

भीड़ में रहकर भी सबसे जुदा 

सितारों के संग रहकर भी चाँद बनूँ

ये ख़्वाहिश है मेरी ...

 

This poem of mine is very close to my heart as it portrays my inner dreams and wishes. I wrote it long back, somewhere around year 1999, but still holds true. I am glad, it got a place in one of my favorite publications "हिंदी चेतना", a quarterly publication from Canada. Click here to read it, along with my other poems-

http://issuu.com/hindichetna/docs/hindi_chetna_january_march_2014

Image courtesy: Google

(These colorful butterflies signifies freedom, dreams and happiness to me. )

Imprint...

The blaze of the Sun

scorching my naked eyes

& my mind wanders far away

as I wait on the bus-stop!

My mind wandering 

but my heart fixed,

to an image, on a thought

that's laiden only of you.

The more my heart beats

the greater goes the intensity

the desire to bloom in your garden

& feel blissed!

The more my eyes stop on you,

the more my heart stares you

it skips a beat with a touch

that's passionate & so much You!

Would it be wrong to say,

to express

to disclose in my words

how much I crave for,

how much I desire

that 'imprint'!

It does not leave us anywhere...LOVE! It follows our thoughts. I penned these words yesterday as I was waiting for a bus in hot Sun. But a thought was my shade, soothing and so my own.
*Image from the movie series Twilight, one of my most favorites love story.

I am...!

I am mad, I am sane!

I am blind, I am dream!
I am silence, I am sound!
I am rational, I am irrational!

I am blue, I am red!

I am smile, I am tears!
I am mind, I am soul!
I am you, I am me
I am LOVE.

A sin...

It's a sin to love sometimes....

I fly in the clouds
and 'think about you,
I tip-toe on the sands of beach
and 'think about you,
And I realize...
It's a sin to love sometimes!

The world's full of dreams-
Happiness, joy, success
materials & fame
what else left to wish for,
I think of the limitations
of human dreams
and 'think about you,
And I realize...
It's a sin to love sometimes!

Life's not a flower
neither a game of saying-
'loves me or loves me not'
while somebody separates
petals from a flower
and 'think about you
And I realize...
It's a sin to love sometimes!

Love's not the sands of
the beach
that's washed away even
with tiny ripples or great tides,
love's not the clouds floating
high up in the sky
that keeps coming & going
with the science of evaporation...
and 'think about you
And I realize...
It's a sin to love sometimes!

---
Thanks to a lovely friend to inspire me to write this! Thanks 'Twitter' :)

I imagine....

Mesmerizing,
desirable,
passionate,
I imagine your touch
on my skin....


Full of nectar
filled with love & longing
your lips would rest on mine
and gradually teach me
how to kiss....


Full of vibrations
sending me impulses
through all my pores
your body wraps mine
around itself
and I imagine my sigh....


Waxing & waning 
of my breath
lying along side you
and feeling your warmth
I shiver with love I imagine....


Your love,
your passion,
your madness,
I drink
I imagine
I long &
I live each time 'i breathe'....