River of Time

What are you most worried about for the future?

What’s tomorrow now

Will be the Today, tomorrow

I am hopeful now

I should be happy tomorrow

What it would bring

Tomorrow only knows

It’s for me to dream today

Reality, god only knows

I am just a flow

Through the river of time

I am here now

I will still be here tomorrow

All that it means to me

There is a song in the flow

They are back

Filling the empty house

voices

invading the silence

Flurry of activities

Edging on the chaotic

And yet the cacophony

has a calmness

Like a breezy music

On a sunny day

Alongside a gushing stream

I just watch

And I sit and wonder

If it makes sense

Yet it holds

All that means to me

I am fascinated by the sky

I am fascinated

by the sky

It play out a show

Every evening without a fail

With the sun

as an accomplice

And the clouds too

Both white and dark

In equal measure

Creating random patterns

Like a kaleidoscope

and tiles of colourful glasses

Random in form

to hide the artist

Casual and coincidental

to hide the master plan

The show plays

Everyday

Irrespective of the audience

Because the audience

Are the show too

And the sky watches them

Fascinated

I turned. And she wasn’t there

I turned
And she wasn’t there

Sleep broke
Dream interrupted 
I turned
And she wasn’t there 

I walked too quick 
Kicking up the dust
I turned
And she wasn’t there

Wind blew
Tapping my shoulder
I turned
But she wasn’t there 

I waited 
For the next day
The world turned
Yet she wasn’t there

Closing my eyes
I saw her
In me forever 
She was always there

Spirit of the River

अपनी ही धुन में 
थिरकते पांव मदमस्त
बेख़ौफ़ बेफ़िक्र
दरिया की मौज

किनारों के अंकुश से 
कभी की वफ़ादारी
तो कभी बनी बाग़ी 
दरिया की मौज

चले समंदर की ओर
अपनी सुदबुध छोड़ कर
अपनी पहचान भूल कर 
दरिया की मौज

हिम की औलाद 
समंदर में समायी
रह गयी तो बस 
दरिया की मौज