Ode to Innocence

Ode to Innocence

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 Shama e chiraag jo bujha diya

Buzdilon ne gunaah aur gustaakh se

Lahoo ye laal na kabhi mitegaa

Humaare zahan o dimaag se

Roshan e khaas thhe wo, 

Agaam khwaaiyishein thhe wo

Aye zaalim tere is napaak khayalon mein 

Kahaan thhaa khauf Khuda ka?

Kya tere banjar dil ne .....

insaaniyat aur jazba bilkul hi bhula diya?

The Moon

The Moon

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If Stars held our destiny,

The Moon they say hold our dreams

On the backdrops of a black blue sky,

Shining like a silver shield

To heaven it belongs, bears to earth a witness

Owns the night, an elegant heiress

Diana, Luna, Selene call what you may

She ramps the starwalk, in her determinant way

To her own will, to her own whims

Crazy crescent plays a game of shapes

With its charm it casts a spell

Deep dark mystique as well

Dazzles and showers its aura divine

Lullabies to hearts that pine

Inspire lone hearts to rhyme

At the end of each day, starts a new Once upon a time...

Grey

GREY

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O! to run, to belong nowhere

Thanatos taketh far away

Into His land, colored grey

Life and soul have no role to play

Conscious mind donot here stay

No joy, no feel, no emotion tamed

No “Whys” and “Hows” no one to blame

Frozen clock, cold and pale

No tears, sorrow, heartaches and pain

Lost or finally settled in lonely terrains

Grounded in deep burial of barren

A search for peace, my eventual end.

Restless Mind: A Tempest

Restless Mind: A Tempest

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A whirlwind of thoughts

Clashing head on storms

It is a vortex of dark tormentuous pain

Emotions tumbling like heavy showers and rain

Rippling cascade of tides overbearing

Hear the winds howling?

Stooping walls of hurdles crawl in

The flash and shores are beyond imagery 

Whispers are louder than the cheers

Silence now evades in high decibels

Flooded, trapped destined to sink

Could the anchor pave a miracle stint?

Dark Blues

DARK BLUES

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Deep, calm and fathomic

Horizon beyond the shore

Lives entagled in beastly realms

Dark unreached by sun or even crescent lune.

Tides or surf, the ocean whirls

Mysteries it holds beneath

Cascades and ripples foamy froths

Hiding translucence and knotty weeds

Its tied its free, at confounding helms

Two poles tearing it apart

The present is lost in duels of future and past.

Unrest, turmoils, a search for peace

Furores are paced with new wave that starts.