तेरे बिना

सुनी सुनी होगी ये ज़िन्दगी तेरे बिना,
मसले फूलों सी होगी ये ज़िन्दगी तेरे बिना ।
जिस राह से तू गुज़रा करती थी हमेशा से
उस राह में ही रुकी होगी ये ज़िन्दगी तेरे बिना ॥

जितना प्यार तुने दिया है मुझको,
शयेद ही मैं उतना प्यार किसीसे अब कर पाऊं
तेरे साथ साथ कभी चल तो न सका,
शायेद तेरी राह ताकते हुए ही मैं मर जाऊँ ।
आंखें प्यासे, पलकें बोझल, नींदें गूम हो जाएँगी, तेरे बिना ॥

कल अगर तू चली जायेगी
तो आँखों से नूर चला जायेगा
कोई जो कभी भी पास नहीं थी,
अब सदा के लिए दूर चला जायेगा ।
फिज़ा वीरां, समां खामोश, राहें सुनी हो जाएँगी, तेरे बिना ॥

बहोत हो गया यूँ रातों को जागना
यूँ पलकें उठाके खिड़की से ताकना
तू कभी नहीं आई, न आने का पय्गाम भेजी
अब जा राही है, तो मेरा दिल भी साथ रखना ।
लोग बैमान, ज़माना गैर, अपने पराये हो जायेंगे, तेरे बिना ॥

मत जा, ए दोस्त मेरे
एक बस येही आरज़ू है दिलमे
फूल हज़ारों फिर से खिलेंगे
रौशनी फिरसे छा जायेगी मेहफिल्मे ।
दिल अकेला, प्यार नासूर, धड़कनें खामोश हो जाएँगी, तेरे बिना ॥

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A bug – a guru.

[This is my entry to the THE INSPIRATION POETRY CONTEST in The Writer's Lounge]

Crossposted in The Writer's Lounge

Here I sit, in this stranded cave
Having lost all –
My family, love, kingdom and people.
I have nowhere to go,
I await no one’s call –
In that bloody battlefield, I lost them all!

The battle so filthy,
It ruined me to dust –
My people betrayed, whom I trust
Still. Maybe it’s time
For me to bid goodbye –
After all that happened, I wonder why!

Where are you?
My loveliest –
The one to whom I sworn.
Traitor, yet my friend
Where have you gone?
Deceiving the land, where you were born!

Sitting here tonight,
I feel so low,
For, apart from the heavens, I’ve nowhere to go,
I flew from the arena
My people know
This shameful face of mine, I cannot show.

My sword, my friend
I plea to thee –
Cut off my head and set me free,
For, I have no choice
But to flee –
Tomorrow’s sunrise, I want not to see.

But stop. What is that bug on the wall?
Striving to climb up, yet so small,
Hurling a web and trying to mount
But each time it would surely fall.



No, wait! It is climbing now
Showing me the way exactly how
What a thought, that has crept in my mind!
“O Spider, my teacher, let me take a bow.”

Now I know! No need to fake it.
The world to you is the way you take it.
One thing that I have learnt for my life –
If you try, you will surely make it.
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