Endless day

 Feign  smiles  and socialize for the nectar of umbilical love

Vanishing Travancore districts on window-shades  in painful rumination

Teary tales of broken dreams of the co-traveler  flowing into swollen Nila

Charming moon-face cradled by Malabar Monsoons

Helpless roar in the graveyard of silence 

Hands in filth  dancing in self-revenge 

Healing musical steering in Punjabi fusion

Rabaa! The Dervish shall whirl to the fullest in this endless day

Faqira tastes defeats sips your divine nectar of Hope

Let this day do not end

Bharahm

 Ya Humsafar! Teri Yeh Muskurahat

Har Ulajh par Barkaraar

Raat, Khauf, aur Tauba ki Aansoo

Khudaya! Yeh Rehmat ki Barsaat

Rabba Sacheya ! Tera Karam Mera Bharahm!

Time

You can't steal my smile

You have to bear me laugh

You have to stand my happiness 

You won't be able to ignore my existence 

You will see me unveil my sources of love 

You will soon grant me sloth and slumber

Before that, let me live this moment, TIME.

You

 You are the ever-updating playlist

You are the involuntary dancing feet

You are the places you wandered

You are the strangers you met

You are the books hoarded to fake depth

You are the smiles you created

You are your  heartfelt laughters

You are your tears in silence

You are the love with your world

You are the quarrels with the divine

You are the dreams denied

You are NOT what you were told 

Moohana (Delta)

Moohana (Delta)

Sayyar

Har Rah Har Raasta

Dariya Ban Baha 

BeManzil BeIkhtiyar

 

Karwaan Mahal

Safar Apheem

Mast Qalandar

Dariya Dervish

Ab Tu Talaab Ban

Tu Samandar Ban

Lehar Ban Umad 

Saahil Bane Aashique

Dariya Kinara Ek Shab

Samandar Saahil Shereek-e-Hayaat

Aam Khaas Ban

Uroob Umeed Ban

Rozmarra Dhadkan Ban 

                                                Alfaz-e-Altaf

Aina (Alfaz-e-Altaf)

Baatein  Muzalzal Baatein

Hum Deewane Apne Paraye

Ajnabi Matlabi Waqti Taqaze

Baatein Muzalzal Bataein

Karein Kisse?  

Doonda Maghrib Mashriq

Nawazi Gunjaish

Baatein Muzalzal Baatein

Yar-e Gaar Dilbar

Ashnai Aaina 

Aaina-e-Umr-e-Guzishta 

Aaina-e-Haal

Aaina-e- Mustaqbil 

Alfaz-e-Altaf

Yesterday's rain

Yesterday it rained 

I opened my umbrella 

to hide from the rain 

of the trees walking 

on the wet tarmac 

I saw pools of water 

over which sunrays played 

I thought I can match them 

 with my tears everynight 

Then the previous night

 I sat near that window 

when my hairlocks  flowed in the monsoon wind 

the raindrops sprayed onto you so romantic 

drowning my giggles 

recalling those moments of ecstasy 

my chat-chatter over the new mobile  

Then the next morning 

I would literally fly through the air from home 

like the girl in that TV 'ad' 

less for the boredom of academics 

more for the meeting in the corridors, 

cafeteria or the woods behind the classrooms 

 Yesterday when it rained

The sound of the rain could drown my sobs

I took in my cupped hands 

 pure pearl-like raindrops 

 to soothen the red swollen patch on my face 

after the slap gifted by the same hands 

(Originally Published on 20-09-2009)