None for No One

If i die
No one is there
Who will miss me
Not a single stone will be upturned
Not a single drop of water will be disturbed
Not a single leaf will stir..

If i die
Nothing will happen
Not a single set of feet will stop for a moment
Not a single bird will sigh
Not a name will be mentioned..

If i die
No Sun will feel a void
No Moon will sing a song upon my dead body
Not a single ripple will rise in the waves of cosmos
There is none for a nobody.

If i die
A small girl may cry for sometimes
Then she will forget all about me by n by
Only she will feel the discomforts in her daily chore
She will bloom into a large lotus-fragrant n vibrant
And will shake n discard a dirt from her shinning petals
If i die
I will be no where labelled as nothing.

~Tu Akela kahan!

Kavi kavi lagta hai-
Jo mai kisi raat chal basun
To Tumhe likh kar kaun bhejega...
Kitna v paisa kusiko thamao
Koi eisa saqs nahi
Jo mara hua insaan ka kaam karega...
Tab kya hoga-
Jab mere batein Tumhare phone ko
knock nahi karenge
Tab to Tum akele ho jaoge...
Ab to mere batein...aur mera saya
Tumhe mashruf rakhte hein...
Sath dete hein hamesha...
Tab kya hoga -akele pad jaoge!
Tumhara dekh bhal kaun karega...
Pyar namaste kaun bhejega..
Jhagdega kaun Tumse..
Tumhare man ki baat padh kar
jaan kaun lega...
Yehi soch kar sina bhari hone chala
Aur bhar gai ankh bhi, Khajiooria!
Par... Ye dilasha v ai sath dath
Ki tab khud mere rooh Tere sath hoga...
Aur kisi na kisi baat se
Ye ehsash deti rahegi-
Tu Akela nahi Banke,
Roli Tere sath hai...
Barabar hai...

~Tu Akela kahan!

देवाबास (~Devábás)

Aj bhi woh ghar -
wese hi adha chhaon adha Alok se
dhaka hua ek anchhuan mandir ki tarha seeatal shanti bikiran kar raha hoga...
Ab v wo adha swarg adha martya ka
ek hissa jeisa apne mahaniyata me
prabhav shali lag raha hoga...
jahan mai ek suitcase-
suitcase ke andar mere hriday-madhu sajaye, mithai ki tokri hath me lie gai thi kavi...
Aj v wohin par eise hi unka chappal-
dhoya, sajaya hua rakha hoga...
Jeise koi kabhi pahna nahi ho-
saalo bit gaya ho-
us jute ko unki pair sparsh ka...
Woh megh-mahal sa ghar...
Aj v wo ghar wese hi khada hoga...
thanda, shant, sheetal,
adha chaaya, adha alok me dhaka hua-
kisi devta ki akanksha me...
aj v uski jharokhe me tamaal lata
lipati hogi...aur aj v kisi taila-chitra se
Nikla hua ek sketch ki tarha...
Kisi ki sanson ki gahri ahat ki tarha-
Wo ghar ka mahol saja hoga...
Aj v ....



~Devaabaas
(Dev Abaas)

Take wings...

Bright Bliss
Take wings...
Fly up...up ...
With the sacred fire,
Tag a wish!

Start as a Fire-Fly
And slowly become a Fire-Flower
And then a Dazzling-Star!
Mount the radiance of my soul
And illuminate the darkness around...
Tag my heart...
Make it fly as a blue burning kite...

O Bright Bliss,
Take wings...

Dusra Dil

Wo pyara sa phone
Jisme mere hriday ki sare batein
Jakar ke samaahit hote hein,
Uski darshan ke lie aj subah se hi
Na Jane man kyun byakul hai...
Jab Tumhare hatho k shree na badhata ho
Tab kis halaat me kahan par rahta ho...
Mere Man ka ghar
Mere Dusra Dil-
Tumhara Phone!

Recalling

I still remember clearly the lonely waterfront...
And the strong wind caressing my hair,
Those deserted steel benches ...
Where i imagine you still sit sometimes,
With or without me...
And the thousands of returning bird,
Their eager cries ...
Upon reaching the destined trees...
And...
Your voice in my ear,
Echoes, re-echoes all the time...

The Map

Your Footprints …
along the bay of my heart 
create a LifeLine for me...
Holding which i start the non-ending journey... 

On my way i find
scented flower beds 
with angels playing sweet music, 
fairies dancing to their tune, 
with a bright brilliant sunlight
smiling somewhere in between...

But somewhere i stumble ...
deep dark pits with evil creatures lurking inside...
mouth agape, screaming...
if i fall, they will devour me ...
But i hold onto the Sacred Charm
that fell from ur eyes,
and the single candle of love
that we both have lighted with a fire, non-stop!

i cling to the LifeLine that you gifted me,
and i pass by the dangerous tunnels, pits and caverns...
Each time i emerge out of a deep dark creek,
there is light everywhere,
and earth smiles at me..
Holding the Sun in your hand you stand
there in the yonder and call out my name...
Again and again ...

A beautiful Map of Your Foot Prints spreads before me,
and i start the Treasure Hunt again...

The Wanderer of the Mirage & The God of The Miracles!

This world is an ancient caravan in a dry water-less, desert

One by one everybody starts the never-ending journey

They head towards the moon

From the very start of life they were thirsty for love

And they start towards the Eternal Life Fountain

The love-less caravan believes moon as Love

And eternal water that can quench
the never-ending thirst for divinity in their souls

The separation from God is beyond any tolerance.           

Nobody knows God also travels with them in some form

Either as the sand stretch or as the two humped camel

or a sand dune or even a stranger
near any oasis-offering fresh clean water

And sweet dates to subside the recurrent hunger…

A few soul recognize God and stop the journey then and there

And start howling in ecstasy and sob with extreme pain…

The re-union is also unbearable…

They never leave the oasis…

The itinerant never leave the oasis
and sit there in deep penance,

Because they can talk to God
and can embrace the Lighted-Figure

only in deeper contemplation.

Sometimes God plays with them

And the oasis shifts to some other place of the desert..

The soul stat the search for it again…

Wandering here and there…

No water no food…

Whole body burning in sun flame…

People call them faqir or faqiran - the mad one

As they laugh and squeal with pleasure sometimes

And the next moment burst out crying,

As they see their Beloved God in their mind’s eye

And they never leave…

They stay in the desert running after their dear mischievous God!

That they have found Love, Life and God,

They wander in the desert…

The dear God may be anywhere-

Inside the sand dune, in a lost camel, in the oasis,

in the kind words of a stranger

Or even in the chimera…

So they stay…never to leave

The moon journey has come to an end…

The moon is here upon the earth.

Non-Entity

As the waves of pleasure hit me
My blossomed brain cells did not call out his name
Instead a violent sob recked my spine
With a vision of a slender chest
With thick black hair covering-
So full of life,
his body-now with earthly dimensions to it
Hang softly over me..
An unnamed God fused in soft bliss
Cultivating an unknown innocence in me.

In this soft velvety darkness
The arched neck has a message for me
And the coal dark eyes that stare unblinkingly
In that most endearing face
Made me cry unreasonably..
For the first time i did not call out his name.
And am busy feeling Him
As a man, as a living being,
As the only soul possession of mine,
As my most loved human upon earth.

I sobbed a little more
Realising how much more i am connected to him
And how very far away and disinterested he is in me.
I sobbed thinking
Loving him is what i want to do
And how it is not even a remote possibility.
I sobbed some more
Remembering how fondly i had hold him
With how much care feeling his soft being
How much i value that known creature
Who has become a non-entity .

A Beeping Toy!

Someone is constantly talking
Talking to to me or not
But every thought process of an organism
Is registered in me,
It's weird and paranormal.
From a faraway land
With an alien language
I can feel the voice touching me..


As I have started the activation code
The voice keeps on coming
It does not stop anymore
It speaks of someone
Not always of me.
But it keeps beeping...
My whole body had turned into a transmitter house
I can not sleep nor can I do any mind activity
It keeps me hooked and busy
Engaged to my very core...


I often wonder am I an one-sided transmitter
Or do I send signals too
Am I readable somewhere, in some faraway land
Or people out there take me as a mere beep.

A Familiar Name

When the first ray of the sun
touched the earth,
She was roaming inside some
dark dinghy streets of a nightmare,
Dazzled and dumb, acting out what part she was hypnotized to play...
Then the daylight knock at the door..
As the glass box broke she came out
With a heavy heart she stood completely motionless-not to know which way to go
Her eyes hurt, she feels drained out...


So much of glaring light...
Still she starts walking.
And by and by came to see a
Small box kept on the road
She opened the lead-
Found a small piece of paper-
Upon which a single word is written
The ink has faded now
The letters are illegible
But she could guess-
Yes, it's a name!
Someone's name and it felt familiar!


Then she thought
Am I awakened
Or I m dreaming again
Coming out of the mouth of the nightmare
have I entered the cave of a dream...
Nothing seems real anymore...
Has the night ended!
Is it morning again?

Wallpaper

The whole world is a wallpaper
Wherever my eyes go,
They meet You!
You are everywhere,
Here in my room-
Up above the ceiling,
Down the wall- sliding, smiling
Like a little boy has come to say-
He has just won a trophy.


You are also there, beyond this room
Inside the green foliage,
Peeping, and then gone...
Now You fly holding the wings of the pigeons
Painting, recolouring the sky,
You are upon the clouds,
Sketing gently, here and there,
And then you want to come down,
Sealed safely inside dew drops,
Swinging slowly, you come down..
You come in thousand forms
To meet my stretching gazes...


You are even an insider,
I don't have to fling open my eyes to see you,
I can see You gliding down
the inner  sanctrum of my heart
In many forms with so many faces
You populate my screen.


So much so, there is no space for me,
I squeeze in somehow instantly to be surrounded by thousand Yous!
Flooding my senses, making my heart beats irregular
Stitching the light of my soul together
You make home in each fibre of my being...
You are an invader and it hurts....
Ah, I am chocked...
And each time I see You
I sharply intake my breath
But forget to breathe out...
A slow sweet  strong pain always reminds me
Jayant, You are my living wallpaper!