Saavi - You are two!

My sweet, little daughter…
You are already two..

Day before yesterday…
You came in our arms…
Like a nightingale…
Filling our hearts with warmth…

House is now like an open Farm..
You play all around,
You jump unbound…
Moment in air… moment on the ground…

When you speak, you make sure all have ears…
Your childhood cries, make sure you have big tears..

You have started to sing rhymes…
You have started to like bed-time stories…
You love your music..
And love for sports is so very basic…

You love your sweets…
I bless you remain sweeter..

You love your butter..
I wish you become swift and smart talker…

Lately, you now like the meat..
I hope your “will” will be meatier…

You are now two..
And you have us wooed..

Adhoori Darkhwast...

दिल के दस्तावेज़ों में ढूंढो

मिलेगी  हमारी एक अदद दरख्वास्त 

आँखों से लिखी.. 

आँखों के लेटर बॉक्स में गिरी.. 

मुस्कराहट की मोहर लगी रसीद.. 

हमे मिली थी तभी... 

वह मुस्कान, वह रसीद.. 

वक़्त की परतो नीचे दबी हुई .. 

आज अचानक... फिसल कर बहार आ गिरी.. 

शायद.. मेरी वह अर्ज़ी.. 

ढूँढो तो मिल जाए कही...

न मिले तो न सही।
कुछ हसरतें अधूरी ही रहे..
कुछ आरज़ुएँ आरज़ू ही रहे..
 अधूरी ख्वाइशे सिर्फ मेरी है..
जो बंट गयी.. तो यादो से कट गयी..

ये होता तो वह होता।।
कुछ होता तोह कुछ और होता..
सम्भावनाओ की कशिश बनी रहे..
कुछ हसरतें अधूरी ही रहे..
कुछ आरज़ुएँ आरज़ू ही रहे..

Patang Si Zindagi....

patang si zindagi...
kayi doro se bandhi...
thaame hue alag haath inn doro ko..
ek haath sirf ek haath mera bhi...

Ude patang... doobe patang..
ek dor se dheel mile...
toh dusri dor koyi kheenche bhi...

nauseekhiya sa mai...
kaafi aur haath anari bhi..
kon woh... khiladi hai...
jo sach mei patang udaaye bhi...

hawa bhi disha deti hai...
jise na jaane kon bahata hai...
koshish kar raha, ude disha viprit bhi...
aur patange bhi udd rahi...
kuchh ladd rahi... kuch de rahi preet bhi...

baarish bhi kabhi ho jaati hai...
geeli patang.. murjha jaati hai..
dhoop ka karti intezaar...
patang si zindagi....

dhaage dhaago ko kaat rahe...
kayi aur dhaago se bandh rahi...
kuchh dhaage toot rahe...
Kuchh gaanthe pad rahi...
patang si zindagi....

zindagi dekhi..

Aaj kuchh baadlo pe silvate dekhi... 
sitaro ko lete karvate dekhi... 
Os ki boonde aasmaan pe dekhi...


hawa pe chalti kuchh aarzooen dekhi... 
baarish mei barasti muskurahate dekhi... 
kuchh apno se basi ek basti dekhi..
kuchh aankhen jagti.. kuch soti dekhi...
 khel khilone or masti dekhi.. 
mitti pe lot lagati baal hath ki hunkaar dekhi...


lakdi ki ek kaathi dekhi... 
dori waali gaadi dekhi... 
angdaayi leti ek patang bhi dekhi...
kabhi aadi kabhi tedhi dekhi....


This is incomplete..
Will complete this some day

Yaad..

Dhuwon mei, dhuwon si.. dhundhli...
gubbaro si phooli.. barso se bhooli...
suraj ki pehli kiran si ujali..
waqt ki karwato se badli..
thodi sookhi.. thodi.. gili.
pehli unsuljhi si woh paheli...
woh yaad sajili..

dhool mei san kar khili hui..
ghootno chal kar khadi hui...
ladkhada kar gir kar.. sambhli hui..
daud kar bhaag kar thami hui..
mudd kar dekha toh..
wahi.. buss wahi ruki.. hui..
woh yaad, woh baat thand mei jami hui...

pahiya aagey ghoom raha..
woh peechhe chhoot rahi..
dhoop ke padne se..
os ki boonde sookh rahi..
mai aagey sarkta ja raha..
woh haath hilaati khadi rahi...

Baadal Baarish aur ziandagi..

बादलो के नीचे..
बारिशो के बीच..
कुछ ख्वाब थे पले..
पर ज़िन्दगी कुछ दूर..
बस थोड़ी दूर.. है चले...

काले थे बादल..
घिरा था आसमान..
ख्वाब थे अनगिनत..
भरा था अभिमान..

खुला है मौसम..
दूर तक दीखता है सब...
बारिश जो होती है अब..
याद आता है सब..
पाँव पड़े है ज़मीन पे..
और उड़ते थे तब..

पंख तो आज भी है..
फैलाना नहीं चाहते..
प्यार जिनसे करते है..
उनको सहमाना नहीं चाहते..

वो बादल आज भी..
कुछ खवाबो को पालते होंगे..
वो बारिश आज भी..
कुछ अरमान भिगाती होगी..
कुछ साल में ज़िन्दगी फिर ज़मीन पे आती होगी..
और फिर पंख फैला के उड़ जाती होगी...

ज्यादा मत सोचो.. मुझे भी नहीं पता मैं ऊपर क्या लिखा क्या नहीं... बस मन किया और लिख दिया... :)

-उदित

TIME Saved or Spent??

OK. So back to the most enigmatic entity for me - TIME.

So, all our life we keep on battling to save this TIME.
- Some want to save this TIME to spend it with his/her family.
- Some want to save this TIME so that they can watch the God Damn Cricket Match.
- Some want to save this TIME to spent some more of it on making more fortune.
- After all TIME is money, everybody wants to save it - obvious.

In the quest of saving TIME, man invented various machines. Now, we have a machine for everything. Starting from needle to a satellite in space everything is machine, all intrinsically designed and developed to save TIME for mankind.

I just so feel that we CAN NOT SAVE TIME, at the very max we can just use the TIME right now that we would have had in future. TIME has its own time and you just cant save it or spend it on your own will.

Did not understand what I just said? Well me too!. But here is what my thinking is:
If we have to travel on foot, without any machine from Delhi to London it might have take us - some 10 years (Gosh, I dont know if 10 years is good approximate). But now with hi-speed planes it takes around  10 hours (again dont know if this is correct). So, in a way we saved 9 years, 364 days and 14 hours. WOW!! But, wait wait wait, did we actually saved that much? or did we used 9 years, 364 days and 14 hours from future, which mankind would have had if there had been no planes and hence no ill-effect on our mother nature.

With all the cars/planes/machines we are saving time today but that in turn is having irreparable impact on the future of the mankind. The fact is we are not saving any time but we are spending time in the future. Since, I live in a country like India, can feel this ever so strongly. We do not have clean water to drink, we do not have fresh air to breathe, glaciers are melting, rivers are polluted, rains doesnt come - if it does - then more then needed, where is this all pointing to? To me it looks like mankind has already spent a lot of TIME of its own future today and in past and hence not much of TIME is left in future, isnt it??

Obviously, I have called TIME a enigmatic entity, so my thoughts are not clear and are confused but I will keep on delving in this :).