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Gently tiptoeing with a smile

Around my senses, oh for a while

What makes you feel so welcomed

Wandering freely yet, in me bound

Fool that I am I failed to see

I let yourself into me

I could set you free

But should I? My love, my liege

Would you linger on and make my life?

I beseech you

Even if it's a part of you - just a slice

Cos without you it's empty, don't bid adieu

Left alone - me and my mental strife.

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A star is shining bright tonight

The heavens are decked up in its best

The world envies, friends rejoice

I look up the sky and it seems to hide in shame

For the star is amidst is, illuminating joy

May your year be of realizations, and your dreams just as well

For you deserve all that and more

I am glad I am by your side as you step into another glorious year

a year of dreams and hope

Thank you for being you, for being this beautiful person that you are.

May your smile curb your sorrows at bay

May you live a life that's so meaningful

So I may vicariously dwell in your happiness

One that radiates like the rainbow

A life worth living

Happy birthday Tejas!

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Your memories behind you've left

My mind body soul handcuffed

How can I go on knowing that

Life of me is with you in debt

In a conundrum of chances

None favoring my wishes

But in your memory I will relish

Those things I live for

And then in your fond reminisce, perish..

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Photo courtesy: Google

Myriad dreams, rat race of a life

Too little time, but options rife

Few things make it worth the while

All through tough times, bitter & vile

I love you, cos you make life sweeter..

Shy though that I am - less said the better!

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When I think of you

I think of the shape of clouds

When they spread themselves for me

For us

When we spend endless nights

Drinking our lives in glasses of hope

Of dreams..

I now go back

With just the clouds with me

Spreading itself for me

I see you

I see us

In it

And when I miss you

When a tear rolls down my eye

I look up to the clouds

And say, you own me

You own my life

My world

I share a part of me

If not all of me

With you

Only you

For nobody loves me as you do

And I as you

I love you!

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Henry Nelson O'Neil, Woman In Love - 1856

Come, sit next to me

Read aloud a story

Of a girl and let she be free

Of grief and of misery

Come, touch my face

With those fingers of grace

Let the story be sung with a gaze

Of this beautiful morning haze

Come, be one with me and you

Know its melancholic not to

Feel you under my skin

Its true

For I think we’re one, never two!

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The room - now empty without you

Sweet melancholy they say, must be true!

Look by your side when you walk out that door,

A part of me will be found walking too!

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Misery! Oh the misery of a play that's ending.

A reality that goes amiss and emotions descending.

Though the audience know not of what goes on my mind,

I just seek solace in their remarks - mostly condescending!

I wish and hope I pass on the words I am intending.

Oh grief! Take me back into the actor's shoes,

in this reality, pain is impending!

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Phoenix-Fabelwesen


and thus times will pass
to bring melody and harmony
just hang in there with many
hopes for the melancholic impasse!

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Words are empty

when I want to

tell you, how it feels

to say 'I love you'

I love you, I really do.

Cliches are  not for me.

So what if I don't say it;

that you mean the world to me.

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Strolling in a distant land..

With myself hand in hand..

Wishing it lingers in my mind..

When I retreat to the grind..

PAVA

A story traverses a long and arduous road

To get to you, to weave a colorful abode

In your mind, that makes you laugh, think

Pushes you to an emotional brink

I have a story to tell, it’s a part of me

Of growing up, of hurt, and glee

I hope it moves you, makes you love

The modesties of life we’re devoid of

My story is promenading your way

Would you lend your ear, would you stay?

You will soon realize it is not my tale

But yours, I am just a narrator in veil.

So join hands with me in this attempt

To experience a story – pray gaffes be exempt.

Lives change with a single story – its true

It changed mine; I hope it changes yours too!

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A fence separates two lives

One this way and the other that way

What do you see?

An ocean of possibility, or an end of human stay!

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Caspar Netscher - Young Girl Holding a Letter

परदा लगे रहे अहसासों पे

हटे तो हटे कमल से जब सूरज आये पार

मुरझा भी जाए बिन सूरज के

लेकिन परदा हटे, तो सिर्फ दोहराने अपने प्यार

इतना प्यार है दिल मे

पर शब्दों का है प्यासा

मजबूर है निशब्द रेहने को

वो क्या जाने हम है प्यासे शब्दों के

इकरार मंज़ूर करने को

कविता अब नहीं जचेगी

चाँद छिप चुका बादल मे

कहाँ खोजें हम प्रेरणा को

जो लेके चले गये तुम हमसे!

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Unfulfilled

Love walks away

To become someone else’s

Solitude so grave

No hope, not even traces.

Love comes around

When life loses the game

Making the self bound

To jokes & miseries just the same.

Giving up on you, on hope

Love, don’t bind me to you

This fall seems tough to cope

A fatal abyss, survivors too few.

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All due credits to John_William_Waterhouse_The_Lady_of_Shalott

Vita Brevis!

Illusions, surreal as they come;

Embraced a newfangled tangent;

When he strode in like a lightning,

And eluded like a star so distant.

The time with him around,

Have become fragments of me.

Manifesting into little chunks,

And etched in doting memory.

Prayers fail me even as I vainly try

To seize that moment of bliss

While I watch him in rapture

Let myself want to passionately kiss

I have a confession to make, I am

Guilty of an unblemished sensation!

Of adoration, desire and superlative love

A feeling so poignant I felt with none

I want to clinch it and make it my own

But I must be a fool to cage the breeze

So I will seek solace in my musing

By writing ballads like these!

For Magnifico, Felicidades!

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Moments - they own us.

It’s the year of gloom and the day’s morbid

Never morning enough, clouds – they forbid

The mood is on the brink – of an imprecise dawn

Chugging on like a mundane mover in lawn

Sanity is in the black – grief is at peak.

All is fine with the world – not but with me.

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Distorted Nihilism

I want to sleep..
I want to sleep and dream a dream
of falling asleep and dreaming.

I want to laugh..
I want to laugh at myself, my laughter
and laugh at the thought.

I want to live
I want to live a life and be immortal
and die to prove me wrong.

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नशे मे है एक मीठा बहाना

जो ला दे दिल की बात को पार

रहे ज़ुबान पे प्यार का इकरार

जिसे ठोके ये ज़माना

तू है काल्पनिक, तू है प्यार

तेरी कल्पना पे ना है गुरूर

बस एक बार बता दूं दिल की बात

की जीने का मक्सद हो भरपूर

साज़िश किया है ज़िंदगी ने

सिखाकर प्यार का आधार

पछता तो हम रहें है

कातिल ज़िंदगी ज़िम्मेदार

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That thing called love! 

Strolling in these crowded streets

Wandering through memories

The tune of love within

Subdues all those without

Angst filled void around

Unmindful pain – baffling and novel

See that familiar face around – no surprise

People are but objects reflecting the mind

Unbeknownst – love struck me

And now I am clearly unsure

What joy, what pain – what more?

They say its fatal – but its poetry obscure.

The emotional dissonance – is that right?

A void that is tediously strong

How do I speak my mind – confess the love

I fear end would win me over, before long.

Gap – the gap – this gap between…

Would cocoon worlds' entirety

The gap between the lips, longer still

If sealed, once sealed – chime unity

I could sing ballads of love

But I am a lifetime shy to be a poet

I speak my plight in vain hope

Of being one – with you, just for a moment

Virtues will be restored

And boons have been bestowed

If the night unfolds with you beside me,

- My man of gold!