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Flowers are blooming
brightly colored
Representing life
Afterlife.

Lazily the wind sways them
This way and that
And they kiss the wind
As strangers do.

When the dust has settled: and it’s twilight

When the grass has grown: and the cattle have grazed

When the heart has leapt: has left its place

When you are no more: no more the same

When the day that dawns: shines in your face

When the time of day: is just the time of day

When night falls: and the day doesn’t break

When someone calls: shouts out in empty space

When ‘I’ devours: that comes its way

When darkness grows inside and darkness prevails

When the lights shine: that darkness hates

When flowers bloom: where no one cares

When mountains separate which valleys within

Valleys within: abysmal space

Circles of gloom: in tortuous waves

Dead and buried I sure am
Liberated from the troughs and crests of life

Lie here in my grave
Toss and turn – Not in worry any more – but only to change my posture
(Did that leave you a wee bit scareder?)

Brown and rotting

with worms swarming over me
Earth

that smells so putrid I could throw up

We the dead have our share of earthly sentiments
For long after we cease to exist
Them emotions so tough, they persist…

Lamha lamha jee lo ye zindagi
Har pal har lamha apne aap mein anokha
Har sans hai jeevan ka ek bindu
In binduon ke judne se he banta ye jag saara
Jaise jodoge vaise dikhegi ye zindagi.
Jo iss bindu ke tatv ko pehchaan jaaye,
Is bindu ke mahatv ko samajh jaaye,
Motiyon ki maala pehen ke saj jaaye.
Jo na boojhe ye paheli, usske pehlu mein
Zindagi ek bojh, ye sansaar – tumhari soch
Na jaane dena mere dost iss pal ko bekaar
Jhoomo naacho gaao, na shok manao,
Kyunki, iss pal, iss kshan saans abhi bhi zaari hai.
Aankhein kholo, lambi saans lo, shareer mein jo hile, jo chale , usse chalaao
Shukr karo , kuchh tho karo
Binduon mein jiyo
Binduon mein hanso
Binduon mein kho jaao
Peechhe ke binduon ko jodne ki koshish mat karo
Aage ke binduon ko ankit karne ki koshish mein
Iss pal ke bindu se haath dho baithoge
Kho baithoge ye pal
Fir banegi ek tasveer jismein honge chhed shayad
Chhedon se roshni tho aayegi magar andhere mein

kuchh khaalipan, kuchh soonapan bhi mehsoos hoga
Apne aap se apnapan apnaana na chheeno
Binduon ko lakeeron se na jodo.

Gardishon ki ladai tho lad li humne
Lakeeron ko bhi bahut kosa

Socha tha kuchh , socha tha bahut
Hona tha kuchh, kuchh aur he hua
Beeta hue kal ka Keemti haar
Jeet kar bhi kya kar leti main iss bar
Inhi sisskiyon se bhar liya tha maine sansaar
Ukhaad liya tha apne aap ko iss zameen se
Udti rehti thi mai apne he khawabo mein
Jab khuli aankh saamne se jaati hui zindagi ko mai
Pehchaan nahi paayi
So rahi thi shayad, kho gayi thi shayad
Khoye hue dinon mein binduon ko dhoondti
Lakeerein he lakeerein
Sab meri banayi hui
Mere zehen ki upaj
Un lakeeron mein Jeena bhool gayi mai
Zindagi ek bindu, maut bhi bindu he hai
Iss nuqtachini ko pehchaanna bhool gayi mai
Apne haath ki lakeeron ki pairwee ke junoon mein
Inki dikhai hui raah pe chalte bhattakte
Aaj he ruki hoon
Aaj tha kal
Aur kal bhi aaj
Iss aaj ki aag mein jalna he
Kal tha aur kal hoga.

In Binduon se bane haathon ki lakeerein
Har bindu mein haath ki lakeeron ko badalne ki hai taakat
Apne haath mein apni jeet
Apni haar mein bhi apna chandrabindu.

Momentous it is when the old is unlocked
To become the new
Like the spring taking on a dark dull winter
The dark dull winter that made you stronger
The waiting sort-of winter
The hanging sort-of winter
The long, everlasting sort-of winter
The winter that realised that it has to leave
Stay it should not any more
For it has done its time
For another land waits for it in preparation
In hibernation.
The squirrels, the mice, the bunnies,
The small ones wait for it
To be given a chance again to fill the chasm.
To sleep, get a rest and strengthen in the cold and deprivation.

Now there is a spring in the air
A lilt in the heart
A song in the mind
A sun in the morning
No longing within
A peace of me in every piece
That I create or color
In every bloom
In every leaf that sprouts
In squirrels, mice, bunnies and other rodents
As they unfold themselves , stretch and scamper about
Peep out of their holes
Enjoy their first green nibbles
And taste the joy of bright shiny days
And hopeful nights.

Leap up to catch the sunshine
In your heart
Warm up the days and cram up the nights
Cram up the days and cram up the nights
Neither holed-up , nor held back
Be yourself, be your own
Be true and that which is you
From outside and within.

Be a person of strength and forbearance
Be a reverie of dreamers
Someone who can stand green or bare, in stark and rare
In leaf or flower, in fruit or tower
Tall and steadfast.
Roots firmly within.
Be you.

Being in your presence
Makes me happy and whole
You are truly beautiful
A marvellous soul
Kindness is you, so is patience
I am blessed to have you in my life
Every minute is worth it
Not to be wasted in argument
For you are special
I knew it then
I know it now
I felt it then
I feel it now

Not saying we are perfect or flawless
We have a booty of bad memories to share
To look back at and realize that there’s more
More to us than we’ve experienced yet
The good far exceeds the imperfections
My love is growing every day
In the little things you do
In the sea of patience that you are
I am submerged

I see myself in the mirror you hold up
With your ever encouraging words I see a me
That probably doesn’t exist
An image of me that I can’t always see
You make me love myself
One couldn’t ask for anything more
A companion, a friend , to pray for or implore.

May God bless you
May you grow wiser everyday
May you be the love that you display
May your enormous heart be filled with
Peace and calm
With tranquility
May we as a family benefit from it all
May I become the person you desire
May God make me all love around you
May God guide me , may faith be my best friend
In all earnestness, I pray for us to be together

Forever more.

My children are my trophies
Whose glory and sheer presence
I like to bask in
In their borrowed light
I glow
and mellow.

Both of them – a piece of me
Many cells of mine they have
Both of them but a part of our universe
Little starlets with their own orbits and trajectories
In which they roam.

In this satellite nature of mine
I wish to bestow upon them
A world of goodness and happiness
A confidence to become themselves
Come into their own
Roam the earth below and skies above
And shine their light, their glow
On paths not tread, on lives unlived
Fairy-dust stones to shiny precious gems
Transform darkness with their light
And in their empty moments
Become one with the unknown
Look within for answers
For solace and peace
And ride the spaceship of life
Despite the struggle and strife
With equanimity, faith and endurance
Sparks that fly off comets
Leave a trail of wonder and excitement
A sense of satisfaction, of content.
Glorious suns of this mother
May you always be the source
Of warmth, happiness and light.