going somewhere ??

Life ...

What I admire most about it is the fact that I get to define it every single day!!

Each day I face crossroads,
Some take me uphill; some to a painful downhill
The beauty is that it always takes me someplace

Some take me down a memory lane; some to a fresh new friendship
Some take me to Vegas; some to an end completely bogus
Some make me believe in angels n demons; some make me believe in the presence of self
The magic is that its effervescence never ceases to amaze me

Some age back a thousand millenniums; some I pave with my footprints
Some are pretty; some are ugly; some I don’t even remember
Some take me to the Seychelles; some to lake around the corner
Some are tense; some make sense; some very special ones are completely nonchalant
The road, its adventure; its humor; its charm is never clichéd



humming aloud

shaakonn pe patte the
patton pe boondein thii
buundon mein paani tha
paani mein aansuu the
choti si kahani se ... baarishon ke paani se
saari waadi bhar gayi
na jaane kyon ... dil bhar gayaaaaaaaaa
na jaane kyon ... aankh bhar gayiiiiiiiii

kabhi shaam dhale ...

sometimes ... when there's silence all around
when the waters seem to rise ... n nothingness seems to set in
its then that i can hear the hum of the bees
the chirping of the birds
the shadows casting away
the evening blushing into the night
n i realize life is oh so wonderful
n i’ve been given the affluence to admire it


humming aloud

tu nahin hai magar phir bhi tu saath hai
baat ho koi bhi teri hi baat hai
tu hi mere andar hai, tu hi mere baahar hai
jab se tujhko jaana hai, maine apna maana hai
magar aana is tarha tum ke yahan se phir na jaana
kabhi shaam dhale to mere dil mein aa jaana
kabhi chaand khile to mere dil mein aa jaana

so very unpredictable ...

... heard the same a million times ... still holds true tho !!

life's awesome somedays, on others its a bitch ...
sometimes u fly , n sometimes simply look 4 a hitch !!

dunno wat's in store ... somedays i sit down to think if it was my decisions alone that decided the course of life for me ... or was it destiny or god or watever that made the decisions n called them mine !!

but yet again i think ... if it was destiny ... could it have made wrong decisions ...
or was it me ... n cud i've made the right turns ...

learnin to live by wat u decide is not always easy ... but tis time around its fo4 us to decide whether we can live with those ... or have the courage to change watever is possible !!

i can't go back n help someone who i'd ignored ... but the next time around i can help someone who needs it ...
i can't go back to sixteen n be naive again ... but i can sure learn from all the naivity n become a better person ...

such are thots that get mingled with some more ...
n life's goes on ... yet another day ... month ... year .......................



humming aloud

tumhari mehfil mein aa gaye hain ...
to kyon na hum yeh bhi kaam kar le ...
salaam karne ki aarzoo hai ...
idhar jo dekho, salaam kar lein

khamoshi chhaayi harsun

just penning down some random thoughts ...

kyon khamosh-si hai raat
kyon din bhi udaas hai
ya tere ashk kehte dastaan
ya meri aah keh rahi hai ...

hai aarzoo ki jhanjhar
ya goonjti har sada hai
hain jugnuon ke manzar
ya phir shab maayoos-si hai ...

yun keh raha hai sehra
kya phir naya tarana
ya sun raha hai kafir
in tanhaiyon ke kai-kasha ...

hai khamoshi chaayi harsun
ek aahat tak bhi ghum hai
jhonka bhi chup hai ab tak
jaane kiski nazar ka illm hai ...


humming aloud

waqt ki qaid mein ... zindagi hai magar
chand ghadiyan yahi hain ... jo azaad hain
inko khokar meri jaan-e-jaan
umr bhar na taraste raho
aaj jaane ki zid na karo
yuhi pehlu mein baithe raho ...

the road not taken

nothing grand for the blog this time ...
just one of my all time favorite poems ...
one that makes all the difference :-)


The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

. - by Robert Frost


humming aloud

siili havaa chhuu gayi ...
siila badan .. chhil gaya ..
nili nadii ke pare ...
gilaa saa chaand .. khil gayaa