Stairway to Love

Stairway to Love

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With every step I traverse

 To walk to you

The stairway entwines

A place to roost

Seeking our abode

Away from worldly plights

Your arms that hold

My trust and faith

Exorbitant soul of thine

Your caring ways

Blessed and graced

With your love in my life

Untill that eternity

I'll walk with you the wilds

The odds we face

The dreams we chase

To turn our fears into our might

Will never let go of you

Even for a while!

Enigma

ENIGMA

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In your eyes fathom down

Ocean amor of deep blue brine

Whirlpools, ripples amidst surfing tides

Your moods and fanciful whims

Like enchanting moors meander along

Meadows of green and pastures wide

A melody in every music you play

The gypsy wants to dance and sway

Charms me back to you away from my truant ways

Your temple of illuminating thoughts

An intellect build of wisdom and words

Enlightens my faith in all evens and odds

An enigma I behold

Your pure soul divine

Nostalgia or some magical rhyme?

My Sweet Revenge

My Sweet Revenge

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You promised me a lot

But you kept none

I promised you nothing

Yet i give you my all

One day tired from your failures
You will fall

Very hard on the rocks

Washed ashore on grainy sands
Amidst the black tempest,

If i walk by then

I will lend you my hand

Save you, smile at you

Then away very far, far away
Disapparate into the dimensions where time sans

Let go

Let go

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Its time for you to return home

Nobody there for you

Your turn on the road to walk alone

No more waiting for you

You will be here i know

My trails you follow

And more i wanna run, i do

To lead a life wheres no you

Move on as i let you go

My India!

My India!

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Rainbow drapes the mounts in north

While the deep blue ocean roost in south

Bounded by sandy desert on westward

Theres a bay once you traverse to eastward

Where a song is hummed in languages more than all birds know

Where the peacocks all dance to the rainy tune

Where stars are not celestial but from the celluloids

Where dreams are big and bold in those childish eyes

Where the “zero” of all things began

Where many epic wars were fought

Great minds and braves were born and brought

Is that land now free for all......?

For safe haven of women, theres a fear stalled

For entrapped minds in superstitions false

Education not yet affordable to all

Walls of faith still used for dividing all

From people in reign not doing their job  

Blame it on us for not being the change...
But watching ourselves of our freedoms robbed!

The Dandelion

The Dandelion

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Not nice not real

Too fancy is the dandelion

One blow, and it all flows

Into the unknown oblivions

White and feathery

Oh so dreamy

Like the insomnic eyes

Fragile so easily unbinds

From the superficial ties

When does this all end

Untill everyone has despised?

Sinistral Trail

Sinistral Trail

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Chasing the wrong words

Walking away from good

Into the dark woods

Bored of everything “right” 

All that is said, read or to write

The sinister side of white moon

Behold it exists so far unknown

Benthic mists and shadowy depths

Mystic magic, curses and spells

Entwined dark curled vines

Cloudy haze in the heart that pines

Ravenous soul turned to stone

Bereft of humanity very cold

Sabr, Patience

Sabr, Patience

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Sabr ki bhi ek had hoti hai Saahil

Kitna kare jo phir bhi kam hai

Imtihaan hai ye mushkil

Kya pata laapata kyun mann hai

Ab be-intehaan ek junoon hai bas

Koshish aur waqt phir se na ho zaaya

Kuch aur naye alfaazon ke khonj mein

Is phakira ne phir se rukhh hai badla 

Na chaah rahi koi saath ki ab khudi taaqat hai banna

Aur akele hi safar taye hai karna!

Couplet 4:

Nabeena hum unke gustakhiyon se

Etemaad humein unke bewafayi pe

Kare bhi to kya karein, dil-e-nadaan

Aakhir ishq hai unke inhi berookhiyon se

Silhouette

Silhouette

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A trail of shadowy silhouette

Of all that is gone and past

Of all that is imprinted

Of all that had once impressed

Embossed on panels of frozen time

Raven black deep down in frames of mind
Addendum:
har lamha guzarta gaya caravaan ke tarah un raahon mein
khwaab yakeen hua jo ab kaid yaadon ke daayron mein
bahoot khoob dekhaa jo jannat-e-kashmir dekha
mere saahil ka gul-e-gulshan gulistaan jo dekhaa

An Escapist

An Escapist

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Colored imagery on tapestry

En route to fiction and fables

Dreaming unknown away from real

A stare in the magic mirror

Not to face truth, rather the ethereal

The parallel dimension,

Where no time tik-toks

A road carved of florals

No stones or prickly thorns

Silly symphony in every heartbeat

No wise, no king

The birds always happily sing

No ruffles and dries

Theres always spring

Into that realm

The escapist dwells

Threads all myths and fancies

In an unreal moorish heath

Liberated!

Liberated!
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Free from the mystical enchantment

Washed away are the paints from fancies 

New lenses that seek beyond sugar-coated words

Un-imprinted impressions from the memories

The walls built again with promises

The journey starts anew

A sweet new melody in the air

Its springtime!

Rainbow colors on hair

The liberated soul dreams and dares

To walk the miles and spread the wings

Tis said in love and war, everythings claimed to be fair

Create a tune, a song to play

Theres a goal to reach

Moving on and not just wait and stare

With all the dear and loved ones

Besides forever with fond and care

PURGATORY

PURGATORY

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No soul, not sane

The human is not anymore humane

Evolved retrograde

Every prosper is unmade

Blind, dumb or deaf to...

The sin graver or sinner?

Silence indeed costs a millions

A Million more innocence.

The fire within ignites

Burn burn thou demons in purgatory

Yet ashes scattered and splurred

Of the Sita since eons of time!

Rhetorical

Rhetorical

an english translation attempt of  Kaifi Azmi's "Koi ye kaise kahe"

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koi ye kaise bataaye ke wo tanhaa kyon hai

wo jo apnaa thaa, wahi aur kisi kaa kyon hai

yahi duniyaan hain to fir, aysi ye duniyaan kyon hai

yahi hotaa hai to, aakhir yahi hotaa kyon hai?

Rhetoric quest rhymes in one’s emptiness

Haunts the past in not being your present tense

If its the ebb, why not run against the tide?

Why is it always a race against the time?

ik zaraa haath bada de to, pakad le daaman

us ke seene mein samaa jaaye, humaari dhadkan

itni kurbat hain to fir faaslaa itnaa kyon hai?

For someone who cares, dreamt to shower all love

In his arms lost away from the world

Yet the love-song is now a symphony without accord

dil-e-barabaad se nikalaa naheen abatak koee

ik loote ghar pe diyaa karataa hain dastak koee

aas jo toot gayee hain fir se bandhaataa kyon hai?

When a wrecked ship is lost in the tempestuous ocean of pain

The light house flickers inside you the optimist again

Despite the evident perceptions of being drowned in benthic depths

tum masarrat kaa kaho yaa ise gam kaa rishtaa

kahte hain pyaar kaa rishtaa hai janam kaa rishtaa

hai janam kaa jo ye rishtaa to badaltaa kyon hai?

A soulful charm or just bound by ache

‘Tis said of love, it transcends life and death

If such is true, why always changes in rule?

Away

Away

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Such is d beauty of Nature, to behold and be charmed

Dazed mesmerized lost in this cloudy mist

Amazing how time runs and leaves no footprints on sand

Happy tears pay ode to every granule of dust 

And each pearl of rains that this cheerful spring brings to the land.

In a chase, to pursue this etheral magic spell

Away away i wanna run away into the wild

INCONGRUITY

INCONGRUITY

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Every rose bears a prickly thorn

Lucky in love or lost and lorne

Tears and cheers are predictably anon

Lifes a gamble since the day when born

Always in’tween choices are we torn

A tug of war of faith, but fate unkown!

Unrequited: The Divine Comedy!

Unrequited: The Divine Comedy!

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Luckily fate brought them together twice

But Dante's love was unrequited, from his side

The mischievous Cupid was at his play

His amorous charms shielded away from Beatrice dame

A May flower, that he first saw when he was eight

Bowled over by her grace and beauty from the moment they met

Unaware of his awe and chalance  

She lived her parallel life, love and death

The cruel comedy, with him the divine plotted

Dante in his famed work had jotted

Dante-Beatrice live no more

Yet the Gods still play the chess of unrequited amor

Immiscible

Immiscible

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To jump, to leap, to run and skip

Life is a race against time

Moving ahead of obstacled-heap

To speak, to shout and loudly scream

Every story be told

Dont let your fairy tale be just a dream

To paint, to scratch and randomly scribble

A graffiti on the walls uncolored

Expressions and feelings not to be fiddled

To scoot, to dive and fly

Away from known directions

Against the tide

To light fire from water, To bend away the rules

Make plausible all the things that could never be

Impossible shall no more be in this roost

Not to blend in, be immiscible each thou soul

Awaiting

Awaiting

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Roses i have longed for

Now the thorns i hold

All the memories i’m left with

Amalgamated with warmth n cold

Lost in shadows of dusk

Awaiting the dawn...

On horizon’s threshold!