Sunday, December 3, 2017

ख़ामोशी ही पढ़ लेना...












                   तुम नहीं होते तो न जाने कितनी बातें करती हूँ तुमसे... आज ये हुआ...वो हुआ।

 अलमारी में रखे तुम्हारे कपड़ों से.... तुम्हारे लगाए पौधों से... कुछ न कुछ शिक़ायत या फिर कोई ख्वाहिश ही।

कभी तुम्हारे रूठने पे मनुहार तो कभी तुम्हारा मनपसंद गीत ही गुनगुना देती हूँ, जैस कि तुम सुन रहे हो।

कभी तुम्हारे होने के एहसास से शर्मा जाती हूँ तो कभी। .. तुम्हारे न होने का दर्द खुद से ही बाँट लेती हूँ।



         

                                           सोचती हूँ ... इस बार आओगे तो तुम्हे कहाँ रखूँगी ?

                            दिल के हर कोने को तुम पहले ही तो घेर चुके हो... अब क्या बचा है ?

पर इतनी बातें होते हुए भी, जब तुम सामने आते हो...... कुछ कहना याद ही नहीं रहता।  शायद खुद से इतना बात कर कर के होंठ भी थक जाते हैं मेरे ... बस आँखें ही प्यासी रह जाती होंगी तुम्हे देखने को .... सो एक टक तुम्हे देखने के अलावा कुछ और सूझता ही नहीं।







                      इस बार आओ तो कुछ कहने को मत बोलना  ... मेरी ख़ामोशी ही पढ़ लेना ...

                                          शायद तुम्हे कोई बात सुनाई दे ही जाए!





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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Trespassers











Abandon this place...


It's a no man's land...





Trespassing would fail...


As you could never leave...





All it appears is hazy...


The fog appears never to leave...





How will you find your way...


In this barren world unseen...





Some torn paintings...


Across broken walls...





The paint of which...


Is damp and cold...





Tired windows peeping out...


The doors hold some "nothings" inside...





The ceiling is full of stars of dreams...


Which hide behind cobwebs...ripped!





The dusty tables gaze at shadows...


Of books that lie at million truths...





The floor holding walls upright...


Was playfully slippery once upon a time...





Now lies beneath...


Dust of time...





Some riddles across the walls...


Have become the pictures of the lost...





Toys wrapped in papers of dust...


Lie scattered like the early morning mist...





You'll never get anything here...


But you cannot leave without a tear...





Trapped whispers in hinges of doors scream...


Lonely places are really very lonely...





They talk of shadows and the light...


But not about how and why...





Anonymous people have been living in this darkness...


And innumerable ran away frightened...





Many wanted to steal what's not theirs...


Ended up being stolen of their breaths here...





A far away dream 


Becomes a nightmare here...





It's this world that has 


Never been so mysteriously dangerous before..





Don't think of crossing the barriers...


You'll surely end up dead here.





(c) Ravinder Kaur





 01-12-2017





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Saturday, November 18, 2017

Demons




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"Stay away from me... you don't know how much I would love to kill you...", his gaze became intense while calling out to me. The fire of his soul clearly was ready to burn up anything and anyone.







"Why do you think that you can harm me... when all I ever want is to be close.... to you!", I took my chance at luring him into my well crafted words.







" Because the demons inside me... they won't let you touch me... they won't let you come closer...", another of his false belief made a way out of his mouth.







"Listen to me please... set them free....", I looked straight into his eyes.







"What? Do you have any idea, what you are saying! You are trying to initiate a tsunami which will sink everything." His exasperated look became stern with anger.







"Do you know who your demons are? They are your fears, your insecurity and your hurt soul. Give them their space, give them what they yearn for." I put my hands on his.









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He seemed a little shocked but didn't let my hands garb his for another moment. "I have chained them, I wont let them free or they'll take over my mind."







"The demons demand freedom! That's why they are messing up with your mind.You need to let them breathe free... let them go. Set them free for that's when they'll honor you, more than ever. It's not necessary to chain them to control them. Confront them...face to face! Tell them what you want... listen to what they have to say...nothing more." He remained hypnotised to my words.







"Hmmn... Only this?" He asked me in bewilderment.









" Yes!Only this... you need to address them... they also are a part of the fuel that powers you. The only thing is to love them; they resemble to the spoilt child who wants attention. Who craves to be loved....who craves to be understood. That is what it needs to be...from you! Unchain them...release them....and take care of them." I finished speaking my mind.











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And With this, his long held tears started dripping...

After sometime, he fell asleep...his face looked so peaceful in my lap...I caressed his hair; smiling to myself that one more soul had learned to tame is belief 'of unloving the demons inside him' today.  












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Sometimes it is not the demons but us who needs to be loved...to know that there are no demons inside but our own light behind a darkness called ignorance.








Monday, October 9, 2017

The Slaughter House


















































Upon the darkened mountain


Rested a little house


Each passer by called it


The slaughter house.





No one lived there


By the nights.


Only spirits untamed


Walking in and out.





By day the sun soaked


The blood pools 


Leaving nothing behind


To doubt.





Nobody knew


who killed whom.


Where does the corpse hide


Only the staunch smell of flesh...





 Flows away...everywhere.





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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Drapes of Love











 Draping around my waist,


 Your hands straighten up,

                                                              The pleats of my saree



                                                         Around you move in my gaze,

                                                     Fingers play like on strings of a guitar,

                                                      Leaving me slowly in bewilderment...



                                                               Your favourite colour,

                                                                 You did never tell,

                                                  But you eye for that special one always.



                                                         Finally you touch my shoulder,

                                                            Leaving the end at its place.



                                                           It sways away in the breeze,

                                                                 Falling off in grace.



                                                           You eye for another chance,

                                                              To touch the ends again.



                                                     To place it again over my shoulder,

                                                               Holding it around me.



                                                                 Awestruck...I am

                                                                   In your gaze.



                                                                 Draped in Love

                                                       Touched by the meeting gaze.


                         


                          


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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Does SOUL have a Gender?




















Does soul have a
gender?


It is the body
that takes over...


In each birth


An envelope of
visual difference


Eyes see


Skin feels


But what is same?


The deep seas


Holding nothing...


To something...


To everything


Beyond sense of
understanding.


If this envelope
burns...


How will you see
me?


Have you thought ever...


The beautiful or
ugly?


It doesn’t matter
then.


The usual 


And the
extraordinary


Is all same


Beneath...


Below...


Deep...


To the abyss,


Where darkness
and light


Melt in the
profound.


To sink, to
drench


To become free


Of what holds
everything


In place,
sabotaged...


Hostage...


Enslaved.


Does soul have a
gender?


To love you as a
woman?


Or to love you as
a man?


But to love, is
it necessary?


For me to be
opposite of YOU?


To complete the
half that’s not You,


Or to be like You


To repel the love
attraction.





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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Second Chance...


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I never thought that time will fly like this and I would not be able to cherish the moments that I deserve. My little girl is now no more little but has grown into a lady....intelligent, smart and beautiful. But with time, Diana has become so quiet... and I wondered why. Sometimes, you think that your children would tell you all that happen to them...but they don't because they need space...to live their own life.



Falling in love is like a fashion nowadays....and with college going kids, it is sometimes a matter of status.The truth is that this duration destroys much of their scope for studies and a good career.

And falling out of love is equally disastrous...it destroys a healthy mentality and self confidence. and my dear little girl ... she didn't say but ... her eyes said all......her sorrow.



I couldn't get angry on her as I know it would worsen her condition ....she needs a shoulder to just cry out and feel light.And my biggest failure is that I didn't let her understand this hard rule of life that one must go on....



"Love is a feeling...to be felt but not to be possessed because possession makes it vulnerable.Feelings are free...they dwell in hearts and that is why they are beautiful. We might not understand that attractions do not merely mean anything but in course of time, we go through a pain which is another emotion... a feeling. But the truth is that we are so much occupied by the sadness that we cage this pain in our hearts. And we totally change the meaning of Love.

Leave the right to possess the person you love.... and you shall always be happy to be in love. You might never forget the person because with him/her you had a wonderful time...which cannot be snatched away . It's a moment of peace...a never ending moment of happiness, which brings radiance on your face. The glow of which is so pure....so true, that never can anyone make you happy like that."



And then she suddenly turned towards me to ask," Mom... do you love Dad in the same way?"



The minute of silence was like ages for me and my lips struggled to say anything.

 A voice behind me intruded before I could start," Sometimes... broken hearts need a lot of time to heal my dear! And when they do...they are stronger than ever to be broken down because we pick up each shattered piece...place them carefully and fix them with pure love.... and give them time and care to heal. Broken pieces may have cracks and stains but they hold stronger....scars are the proof of our struggle but not our failure. Second chances are very difficult but people get stronger . They know the pain endured in the first time. So, second time, the heart is all prepared.

SO.... buckle up!!!This is not the end.....He rejected you....move on...don't stay where you are...but as your mom says- Love is a feeling, not to possess a person but the feeling of being in love. And that is how it should be! "



Her dad said the best words ever to boost her spirit...as she wiped her cheek and hugged him....a jitty feeling hovered over me and I was caught in his gaze, his muffled voice touched my ears,"You can never forget your first love...the first kiss and the the first drops of rain of the season.."

My breath struggled to get free but my eyes glistened with the petrichor of the first love lost in the crowds of memories....my voice finally stripped of its loudness spoke in a husky tone," I regret why it wasn't you?"



" It was always you....my first and last...and I don't regret I wasn't your first because I waited for you... and somehow I was destined to be yours." His words and his warm embrace made me realise that second chance in love is a beautiful thing....the sweetness of love is never less...it is our hearts that do not open and accept it but... I have found peace in the love that I have got and I hope Diana too understands this and....accepts life and love as they are!



(C) Ravinder Kaur

   

     28-06-2017



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