दीदार

उसके दीदार से
बेजान पथरों में भी
कोंपले फूट निकल आती हैं

लहजे ए नूर की कसम
टूटे पत्तों से भी
अाफताब के दिन निकल आते हैं

अशफ़ाक ए इश्क की क्या कहें
लहू भी दरिया बन
अश्क बहाने लगती हैं

अब्र को अब चैन कहां
फ़साने भी
आशमाँ बारसाने लगते हैं

WHILE IN TOGETHERNESS

When you fasten 

a threaded hole 

Along the longer bolt,

Make sure you give

The right friction

Rotating the nut

Keeping its groove entact

And

Forget not to lubricate it nicely

In case to unwind the future

When oxides takes to blisters;

With much lust about something

That kept on compressing

While in togetherness

OTHER END

When no  munificent dream

Could spread my richness at night

I will truce my fulfillment, vagrant

to the other side of the moon

When no dark blood

Could peeve thickness to my wound

I will gain one more war, 

to shine my sword from the other end

FINGER PRINTS

When cold wind

Gushes through the pore

I shiver down my neck

To breed one more familiarity;

And stamping my fingers

Across the walls of my staircase 

I brood down the stairs 

Lest, when the building will crumble down some day 

Majority will guess the age of the house

Searching the marks of my finger prints 

WHEELS GOES ROLLING BY

How is it that 

when whistle comes from the kitchen cooker

the bogies of empty stomach 

gets attached to one another 

in a family

And

There is no vacuum cut

As the wheels goes rolling by

LOVING BIRD

Your cloud of 

dense hoary eyebrow, have

opened up a clear eye space

While pupil of my black eyes

Flutter like a loving bird

Raining drops from my teary eyes 

PHANTOM HANDS

 

A long phantom hand held my head

And kept on pushing through the pillow 

While I was pressing the thoughts by my eyes and nose

It was semi dark, when angled arm took its shape

Taking no clue of what and why

The hand severed itself from the body sloth

And charged the head clutching my hairs 

It was booty of old wisdom 

That kept me awake the whole of night

And the phantom hands took to spade

To unearth the richness from my grey cells