Saturday, July 17, 2010

It was hard...

It was hard to see him suffer and yet the worse,
I didn`t know what to talk, how to walk about.
All the time he showed his teeth through the concaved lips,
He talked very little; but the words were `bout to sprout.

He was there `cause she was performing
But she never knew what happened that night,
When we all were busy hunting down the staged females
Sitting among the howling crowd in the dim light.

He always have had this brittle crunch
But ne`er did anyone witness against his finest melody.
Despite all the cacophonous echoes, sitting at his elbow
Got me encountered with his divulged melancholy.

I sought for a drop of rigmarole on his surface
But he sat there idle with a frozen spine,
With the galloping time, held his conscience intact
But the tears eventually spoke from within the shrine.

There she came, dancing boisterously the open stage,
Springing with a felicitous smirk inside her golden hoop.
When she gave her assent to fall in his arms,
The drops desired to emerge out from the vicious loop.

We kept shouting her name into his ears
But nobody did realize that he`d gone numb.
Till the few final minutes he encumbered the grief,
Just refused to break before a group of scum.

They seemed to be the four most merciless minutes,
When alone he endured all the catastrophic pain.
The eyes had started consoling that broken heart,
When she among the crude crew, appeared again.

She was a deceptive destiny and there wasn`t a path,
But he waited long and searched for a scout.
But it was hard to see him suffer and yet the worse,
I didn`t know what to talk, how to walk about...

Sunday, July 4, 2010

ऐ अंकुश...

आज इतना क्यों डगमगा रहा है अंकुश,
उस दिये को भी अपने आगोश में जलने दे|
कहने से इतना क्यों डर रहा है अंकुश,
उसके आलोक को अपने सिरे भी तो रहने दे|

कल्पनाओं के साए में रहकर, ऐ अंकुश,
क्यों कर रहा है हक़ीक़त की उपेक्षा|
बहने दे उन लफ़्ज़ों को हवाओं में अंकुश,
बेसब्र होने लगी है पल-दो-पल उनकी अपेक्षा|

उनकी ख़ामोशी भी अब बोलने लगी है अंकुश,
अब तो खुली आँखों से देखना सीख ले|
थोड़ी-थोड़ी देर भी अब होने लगी है अंकुश,
अंधेरे से पहले-पहल ही दीवार भींच ले|

कब तक अपने अश्रु पीता रहेगा, ऐ अंकुश,
कुछ उनके हक़ में गिर भी तो जाने दे|
उनकी पूजा में कब तक त्याग करेगा अंकुश,
उस ख़ुदा को अपनी प्रार्थना सुन भी तो लेने दे|

आज कह रहा हूँ, कल शायद ना कहूँ अंकुश,
आज वज़ह भी है और वाक़या भी|
आज यहाँ मैं हूँ, कल शायद ना रहूं अंकुश,
आज तू भी वहाँ है और वो भी...

इतनी देर ना कर देना कहीं अंकुश,
कि उनकी मंज़िल ही बदलने लगे|
हमसफर तो तेरे सामने ही है अभी अंकुश,
कहीं उनके कदम भी ना डगमगाने लगे|

दबी-दबी सासें लिए क्यों चल रहा है अंकुश,
आज ज़रा सी हिम्मत तू और कर ले|
कहने से इतना क्यों डर रहा है अंकुश,
ज़िंदगी के लिए, ऐ अंकुश, एक आख़री बार मर ले...