Light creaking in
Leaves of grey dancing
At the confluence
Of alliteration and assonance
Reiterating lies
Morphing into truths
Knavery of nature
Playing in the naives
It’s ever perpetuating wantonness
Finding prevailing peace
Into sandals
With broken pieces of looking glass
©jeyforyou

Life held his finger of his eyes
And escorted
To an alley
Where savage herd
In a reckless drive
Revelling their own idioticity

And in the nearby pond
The ripples had not yet settled
Pelting of stones across
The fishes in the cowed vulnerability
Had lost their sleep of the night

At the rooftop
Of that yellow white skyscraper
Beyonce and Enrique being played
Scent of barbeque
Filling the air
Down on the street
Near the fast food kiosk
A woman filling her rag with the leftovers

An all men gang in Toyota
Hooting a girl
walking off her office gate
Fear swells

Seeing her alone
That boy smoking near the church gate
Stalking sets in
Fear swings and swells large
A perennial hell of palpitating chest

In the half lit balcony
A young girl of sixteen Fall
At being denied a mountaineering trip
An orthodox mother
“It’s not meant for the girls
What would the neighbours and relatives say”

Thank God!
Had Santosh Yadav given in
To the hands of orthodoxy
Wouldn’t Mt.Everest still be sobbing
Deprived of the imprint of her feet twice?

A college going girl being shouted at
“Why the hell did you fill up the N.C.C form?
Look at Mr.Gupta’s daughter
She is going to be a doctor
And you. O hell!
Is the idea of Border security force sneaking in?
©jeyforyou

An empty bottle
Parked on the cracked tiled floor
Yearns
Cries
“Frill me with zeal”

Rubbles in sight
Once a home
of words and phrases
With graffiti on the walls

“Lashing love”
“Demonizing dread ”

Like the plaster of paris

Exhausts it’s sheen
Why the words
Don’t skin off
It’s sting
©jeyforyou

Leaned against the wall
Eyes closed
“Tu na Jane Aas pass hai khuda”
(You know not but God is around)
Was the song on the play
Unmoving cold body
Nothing
But breathing
Very deep
On the couch
Of solitude
Eyes of his soul
On lookout
Groping to reach
His agency
Just one wish
Unlive the days lived
Unspeak the things spoken
Unwrite the things written
Unhear the things heared over time
The rainbow of his dream
Once smeared his coverings
Whiten them! Whiten them! Please!
Spider of time
Still makes web
In that corner
Of his unsanctified sanctum
Where the legs of his reflection
Still get caught
Change your geography
Dome of despair decreed

©jeyforyou

With the dawn of morning star
A frail old symmetry
In the balcony
A binocular in the eyes
Trailed down the alley
Unbeating heart too much sallied
Fallen leaves of the last stormy night
Not yet inked
With the scars of steps
O ! They say
“It will surprise you”
“Yeah! When I unwait for it”.

©jeyforyou

Today when I sat to write
Long I thought and gave my pen a bite
No scratch on paper
Nor a word oozed
As if ink froze up or mind
And words groped in the mist
Before they could get on the threshold
The fog thickened
like mariners’ ship
Words suffered the horror of dark
But lucky were they;
An albatross came to their rescue
Who will anchor my words
To the shore of mind
An imprint does it yearn
My pen plays truant.
©jeyforyou

“Where do you feel safest?”
I closed my eyes
And wandered the places
Fate took me to
From womb to the shitted
Drudge
Wilderness
Streets
Lakes
Hills

Seas
Fear here
Agony there
Darkness
Scalding light

Suffocation
Panting
Exhaustion

At one place I ceased

Her web of words
Made into crimson love
Cuddling
Caressing
Romancing
Barricaded
With the safety bricks of her
Nouns
Adjectives
Verbs
And adverbs

©jeyforyou

Kabhi shaam k Chirag sa
Ek boojhti hui aag sa
Milke khud ke hi khaaq se
Uth khada Woh hua Zara
Pur zor phir jab chali hawa
Woh ud pada
Ek jhonke ke sang
Na phir dar ki læ
Se woh Dara Kavi
Gira v Jo
Tau utha khudi
Jab parwaaz ko Woh pa Gaya
Phir kya fikar ho anjaam ki
Jumbish main hai
Uski Zindagi
Bas chale hi ja
Ude hi jaa
Gar waqt bhi Kavi tham Jaye Jo
Rukna nh
Tha yahi hausla
Ude hi ja
Ude hi ja
Ude hi ja æe hsusla

©jeyforyou

What this human mind is
A God-damned lawless wasteland
Soaking in the greed
Of wealth
Of power
Thugging
Stalking
Exploiting
Arsoning
Enlarging
The scope
The scale
Of gain
Screwing up the rest
At the selfish behest

Scores
Countelss scores
Of sores
Of pains
Of sufferings
Cry! You just cry
No worries
It will not dry
At the altar
Of your complacency
Made with the brick of your silence
It will cease not to thrive

©jeyforyou

Har katra ek dariya sa
Puri Jahaan Jaise ek zarre mein ho
Uski ankhon ne aisa hi Kuch padha
Kudrat ko jang pasand hi kab thi
Han par woh aazmata zarur hai
Iski aazmaish
Aur hum sikandar ya phir ek shikaar
Masibat tau yeh h ke natize se pehle
Anginat natayez Woh banata
Khauf ko ragon mein bharta
Jaise sline
Tu kab karega azaad khudko

Katra/dariya drop/river
Jahaan/zarre universe/ tiny thing
Kudrat Nature
Aazmata/aazmaiish test
Sikandar winner
Shikaar victim/prey
Masibat problems
Natize/natayez results
Khauf fear
Ragon viens
Aazad emancipate/free
©jeyforyou