TRUST SEED

Ah the trust seed you sow
To watch it handsomely grow
The perpetual care you, on me shower
Letting my dreams be alive and flower

The way we laugh, sway together
Taking care all the blessings we gather
Walking on path smooth or steep
Together we laugh, think or weep

The world’s along us
Or we miss the bus
Winds dancing our way
Determined, come what may

Overcoming all the worldly strife
Gaining the experience of life
You and I, I and you run along
Singing the sweetest of sweet song

The confidence in you I have
The belief in me you have
You watch it handsomely grow
Yes the trust seed I sow

Why did you say I am beautiful

Why did you say I am beautiful?
This earth has but one graceful
Voice - sprinkling water, full of sweetness
Heart childlike full of tenderness

You said on my forehead does the sun rise
The sparkling stars twinkle in my eyes
Untied hair were the clouds floating
My words-honeyed, were ever enchanting

We were inseparable like scent and flowers
Into each other’s eyes we would gaze for hours
Life was sincere responsibility, still was fun
Come what may, from trouble we would not run

You said the faults were – often, majorly yours
To harmonize the relation – efforts, of course ours
Reasons superficial but galore you drifted
My silent words but no longer gifted

We, our being full of pain and longing
Still we couldn’t be each other’s belonging
The parting, an amicable solution be graceful
Still why did you say I am beautiful.

बिरहा

घने तरुवर की छाया

उनके रुप-रंग की माया

ये सूरज का उगना

वो चाँद का ढलना

वो खोए खोए नैन

दिल बिरहा बेचैन

ये नदिया का किनारा

वो मौजों का सहारा

ओंठों पर प्रेमगीत

छाए हुए हैं जिनमें मीत

ये सूनी नाव की ठौर

वो खड़ा पर्वत कठोर

पाँवों में पायल की सरगम

आँखें उसकी यादें से नम

ये क्यारी में मुस्काते फूल

वो मेघ उमड़कर बरसाते शूल

चहचहाते पंछी लौटते घौंसलों में

सुलगने लगी मेहंदी अब हाथों में

ये मुस्काते चाँद की झुलसाती चाँदनी

वो जाते सूरज की रुलाती रोशनी

DON'T WORRY I LOVE YOU A LOT

Don’t worry my love
I love you a lot
There is helplessness
Frustration a lot
Life’s stopping my pace
Hurdles to overcome a lot
Dreams going haywire
To gather broken pieces a lot
Images of people shatter
Those shreds pierce a lot
You ache mutely telling
You belong to me a lot
The helplessness, frustration
You are not to be blamed
Pace stopper, hurdles, shattered dreams
You are not to be blamed
It is the mindset of people
Which is to be blamed
That they don’t realize you can do it
It is to be blamed
That you want to live a life
They cant understand is to be blamed
Don’t worry my stump
I love you a lot

PHANTOM PAIN

O! that sharp pain pierced once again
This time at different place
It is gnawing again
There’s no remedy
No pill, nothing to ease it
Still it feels nice also
Tries to stay still, no movement
To let the sensation stay in
Pain though brings helplessness
It gives the feel how it was
Before it became a stump
The pain, the phantom pain.

STUMP

I look at the stump and wonder
Was there or is the life yonder
It was there as a base
And no there was no haste
Slowly and slowly it withered
Became a vegetable never imagined
Hope was, but a, distant dream
Tears, Oh now and then used to gleam
Then came the time of judgement
The stump was but the remnant
Winds that blew away the shriveled foliage
Had been vehement, so full of rage
Now all over there was calm
Applying balm, no the rage was not a sham
Stump stumbled back to life
Will it or wont it everywhere was the rife
A new sapling was grown
To many it seemed was its own
Now it’s giving shade no wonder
Was there or is the life yonder