वक़्त

हाथ आनेवाली ख़ुशी पल मैं छीन लेता है 
वक़्त भी कैसे खेल खेलता है

जो नहीं मांगता उससे भर भर के देता है
पर जिसकी दुआ है उससे अंधेरे मैं छोड़ देता है

माना ये गम सभी के ज़िन्दगी का हिस्सा है
ना सिर्फ मेरा या तेरा पर सबका यही किस्सा है

पर कितना भी उससे समजाऊ
ना जाने क्यों ये दिल रोता है

हर पल एक नया मौसम है
ज़िन्दगी हर पल एक नयी पहेली है

वक़्त ने भले ही लिखे होंगे कहीं और इम्तिहान
आज नहीं तो कल, होगा अपनी मुट्ठी मैं ये जहान

साँसें चल रही है तो संघर्ष अभी बाकी है
लड़ाई भले तू हरा है पर युद्ध अभी बाकी है

घना अंधेरा, इतना सन्नाटा ही क्यों ने हो आज
पर नज़र मैं अगर तेरे ख्वाब अब भी ज़िंदा है
तो कल तेरी ही ज़मीन होगी और तेरा आसमान होगा  



-SR.

World beyond the stars

What we think as correct
Is inappropriate in their eyes

Our perspective towards life
Is nothing more than a trash can

Our talks were silenced then
By using the cloak of we being kids

So why question the reap now
When we can't have a conversation, deep

Words have a killer blow
Mightier than any sword
You will never understand
For you only give what you inherited

Things are changing at lightning speed
Neither you are open to it,
Nor do you try to understand it

Intentions are clear
Realisation is also there
But in a different way

Your approach is in one way
You forget to explore beyond the horizons

For there is a world beyond the stars
And hope is alive, even in the dark

Never learnt to appreciate, but
You know the trick to demoralise

Difficult it becomes to stand again
When going is made tough by the close ones

We suffer more in imagination, out of fear
Then what it is in reality

Hoping for a miracle, a ray of hope
Something to hold on to scale the mighty slopes

-SR.

Special One

For quite some days I am feeling a void
Want to share tons, but can't find an ear to hear my plight

Heart is bleeding from within
Don't know the reason why

Eyes getting filled up with water
Each time I speak or even give a try

Can't look in anyone's eye
For the dam might break open wide

So running away into hiding
To allow a few drops, pass in the cry

Missing that special one today
Who would have been there for me

Who would have understood my silence
And read the pain in my eyes

Friends are there for me
No complaints on that part

But they also have restrictions
Can't be there besides me all the time

All I want is to speak out loud
Into someone's ears pour my heart out

Feels heavy from the inside
Don't know what tomorrow might have

Living on a thin hope
One day I may be able to hold my head high

-SR

Sleeping Beauty

Long journey it has been,
Almost a decade old

Was yesterday as it seems
Came across this sleeping beauty

Silent person from the outside
Violent comedian from the inside

Keeps fighting with me always

Who says we are friends

Forever enemies at each others gate

From forgetting her birthday

To those birthday get togethers

From non stop masti and pranks

To serious life talks on the platter

Saw the ups and down, while sailing in same boat

Now we laugh upon those tragedies, Cherish the memories

Learning curve it has been

For you learnt things from me

Not the other way...(LOL)

Still more fun to explore, 

Still more memories to create

It's been a pleasure uptill now

Hope to see many decades 

Together, like enemy-friends

-SR