I dare

I am drifting away from

The Shore of pain and ocean of expectations.

I was bleeding with despair and fear

Of loosing You.

Now, when I already lost you,

I dare to love again.

To love this nature, innocent heart

Which reside in inner me.

I dare to love those cannibals,

Carnivores, herbivores and humans.

And love the plants, trees and seeds,

To conserve the inner soil of them.

I dare to somersault and jump,

Dance and run,

As no one is holding me tight,

To stop motion and create Momentum.

I am drifting away from

The forlorn shadow,

The whispers of screams,

The slaughtered dreams.

I am going far from the place,

Where you and I are not We.

I know, in this oasis only,

You was I and I was You, someday.

- SSS

Copyrights 2012

An Ignored Knock

He knocked it several times, but I was dissolved in liquor,

settled somewhere in the glass like a particle....

He knocked again, I was a flying particles in the smoke of cigars,

Somewhere settled in ash tray...

He knocked me again, I was sleeping thinking I am ill,

Lost somewhere in depression...

He came to me and went many times without knocking, 

I see the shadow moving from the bottom chink of door...

Thousand times he came to me,

Million times I saw my unwillingness to open the door..

Open the doors of brain, heart and instincts,

He is outside standing to accept you the way you are.

The god is with us everytime,

We forget him during adrenaline moments. 

कागज़ की कश्ती: जिंदगी

आखिर क्या हैं यह जिंदगी ??
एक कागज़ की कश्ती ,
संभलती, गिरती, फिर भी चलती !!
साहिल पर रूकती.. टकराती ...
लहरों के साथ चलती,
कागज़ की कश्ती!!!

कभी गिर जाती तो,

दो मासूम हाथों के बीच, 
गर्माहट पाती,
और फिर गहरे पानी में गोते लगाती,
कागज़ की कश्ती!!!

कभी निर्लज, कभी सहज,
संबल और सहनशील,
फिर भी नाज़ुक गीला कागज़,
कभी रुकी हुई शांत,
बिना किसी आहट,
जिंदगी !!!

कहीं सूरज की तरफ जाती,
मंजिल को तराशती,
पानी में लकीरें बना के,
पत्थरों को चूमती हुई,
जिंदगी ..जिंदगी......

जब अस्तित्व खो जाएगा, 
तब पहुंच हो जाएगी तरल पे,
जहाँ होगा अंतर का आभास,
एक मोक्ष और उसका एहसास !!!! 


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