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They say you fall in love only once. They say love is about seeing stars, dancing on the clouds and hearing the melody of your heart. They say love is about finding parts of your soul in another. They say love is about the light that dispels your darkness. They say love is a passion, an emotion built on trust and stability. They say a lot more. Alas I don’t agree with them! Ever since I fell in love with words so many years back, I have fallen in and out, more than once. This love has been marked by moments of hatred, sprinkled with instances of doubt. At times I have felt I don’t know these words, at others they have betrayed me when I needed them the most. The bursts of passion have been interluded with months of absence. They left me in the middle of the night and stayed away for days, like an unfaithful lover. They refused to listen to my pleas and come back into my heart. They stabbed me time and again by coming out in fractions, broken little pieces, which hurt the ones who re

A letter to beloved You are looking like a lotus of pink colour on the mud of all the vain ideology of beauty. Your black eyes are looking like the universe of darkness in which I want to flow as a soulless leaf of the tree. Your face is glooming as the flower of modern plant but I am a person of countryside and I don't know how to interact with you. I cannot stop my self to loving you. I know, you are a shadow which is visible, close to me but not reachable. When I look you then I forget my aims, I forget all the things. In a human body, a thirsty soul who don't know about himself is similar to me when I see you. I wait to your eyes who touch the invisible sign of my soul, terrify me about my future. So please , try to stop me from blowing in the dreams. Dream, yes you are like a dream, a mirage which seems to be but reality is different from the fictious dream. I am not a great poet, not a great writer. When I see moon and stars, I think that they all are part of your e

ये चाँद खफा है मुझसे  सितारों के गांव में  जो अकेले अकेले ही रहता था  कुछ दिनों तक साथ था  कुछ पलो  में बेगाना किया  ये चाँद खफा है मुझसे ये रौशनी भी उसकी है  जो मेरे राहों को रौशन कर रहा था  कुछ दिनों तक उसकी चाँदनी मेरे साथ थी  कुछ पलों में मेरे घर में अँधेरा किया  ये चाँद खफा है मुझसे  जब उसकी रौशनी उससे अलग होगी  उसके सितारे जब उससे बेगाने होंगे  जब वो मेरे पास आएगा  तब  तब उससे कहूँगा  ए चाँद  तू तो खफा है मुझसे