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Tuesday 27 February 2024

DREAMSCAPES

Have you ever had that dream
so sad, that you cry
waking yourself up?
I had one last night
where we couldn't meet 
yet again
for many dream years
again and again.

In many surreal restaurants
under bizarre cielings,
I searched for you
only to find myself sipping alone -
the tea served for two.
I wandered the cloudy pavements
riddled with the embers of vestigial desires.
Centuries of dreamscapes
proliferating in a moment
and in every century, every moment -
Loneliness.
Only the dream, not even the dreamer.

I cried
Waking myself up to a life
much like dreams.

Saturday 10 February 2024

Goshvaara/ گوشوارہ

Zindagi khasara hai -
Kabhi cheezein
Kabhi rishte
Kabhi insaan ganwane ka.

Zindagi Safar bhi hai lekin -
Cheezein cheezon se badalne ka
Rishte naye paida karne ka
Insaan ke naqsh e qadam pe chalne ka.

Magar is sab khasare mein
Woh Jo ek Kami tumhari hai
Mujhse Tai nahi hoti
Safar taweel hua jata hai

Tumhari ek cheez ka mutbadil nahi
Tumhare ek rishte ka rishta nahi
Tumsa ek shaks mujhe milta nahi 

زندگی خسارہ ہے -
کبھی چیزیں
کبھی رشتے
کبھی انسان گنوانے کا-

زندگی سفر بھی ہے لیکن -
چیزیں چیزوں سے بدلنے کا
رشتے نئے پیدا کرنے کا
انسان کے نقش قدم په چلنے کا-

مگر اس سب خسارے میں
وہ جو اک کمی تمہاری ہے
مجھ سے طے نہیں ہوتی
سفر طویل ہوا جاتا ہے

تمہاری ایک چیز کا متبادل نہیں
تمہارے ایک رشتے کا رِشتہ نہیں
تم سا ایک شخص مجھے ملتا نہیں-

Thursday 1 February 2024

WHY LOVERS NEVER SMOKE INSIDE CLOSED ROOMS!

The smoke screen is a fiery crystal ball,
many forms take shape, many shapes take form;
An aqueous Chinar drips fire-leaves -
A warhorse, smoke etched, mutates into a mule -
The grey spines of long lost countries
appear and disappear like serpentine ouroboros.

All this can vanish with a sooty sigh,
but then, the gyres emerge
like long tresses and almighty arms
smothering, suffocating, stifling.

A room under the smoky talons
is a dungeon spiralling forever.