Eny meny miny mo

Eny meny miny mo!
Catch the devil by the toe
Hit him hard, hit him low
Uppercuts, Counter-punches, land the blow
I hate him, you hate him, show no mercy to the bloodhound
Do all in your reach, kick him, ah!!! the crunching sound
Kick him hard; make him lick his defeat and his wounds
Show him the wrath of mortals, give him some mortal wounds
Eny meny miny mo!
Kill your devil, kill him slowww

A Drop of Dew

Ask me not what I can give
I have given already as much
Ask me not what I have hidden
I didn't hide anything as such
Don't pretend like I am selfish
When all my smiles are named after you
Don't say that I gave you just a piece
I gave the whole me and you don't have a clue
I don't lie, at least when I say I don't
Times and tides may leave your side, I won't
A waiting tide, a still in time
A drop of dew on morning petal
Under your rays, don't tell me I didn't shine
Evaporate this drop of dew, if you still don't believe
I will name my last smile to you and forever take my leave

A Cup of Tea

That cup of tea on my hand
Fingers clasped around it
It felt so real, yet it never was
Is this life less warm because it wasn’t?
Dreams, parallel worlds
You smiled and everything bloomed
Today when I saw you in the mall
You didn’t even look back
So different we were
In that world that we let go
So warm, like that cup of tea
Full of hopes, full of joy
It felt so real, I believed it was
Awakening to my senses now
I feel a deep sense of losing
Something that I never had
An alternate path that I never took
Some warmth into my life that I so much need
Like the cup of tea that we never shared

Billy and his Daddy

Daddy had told Billy, “All humans are equal.”
Yesterday when Daddy was having a quarrel with the neighbor
Billy was writing a sentence over and over again
That Daddy gave to him, a handwriting exercise
“We all love each other.”
Tomorrow Billy will ask, “Why did you yell at him, Daddy?”
And Daddy will look at him, look at him and keep looking
For he will need time to search
An excuse to excuse him from his actions
Just like countless times before
And Billy will get an answer; a mumbled something
He will try to remember it hard,
The same mumbled something
He is going to need it when his son asks

Gutters and the Shoes

Day before yesterday he slipped, he fell, he cursed the gutter, and he walked again
Yesterday again, he slipped and I watched the replay, even his cursing sounded dubbed
When he slipped today as well, I could no longer contain myself
I went to the gutter, squinted my eyes for something,
Nothing
The gutter wasn’t big
I tried to walk over it the way he did
I didn’t slip, I didn’t fall and I didn’t have to curse at all
I followed the person who slipped, I wanted to know
It was a curious thing, you see; to slip over something that others don’t slip
I caught up to him and I asked him why,
I was bulldozed with his curses
Before he walked away, dragging his mindless feet
Only then I saw the thin sole of his shoes, worn out and just a stretch of rubber
It never was the gutter and never will be
It was, is and will always be the sole of his shoes

Sweet Justice

Hey rotting carcass, horrid corpse!!
Come no closer
Your stench disgusts me
Leave me alone
O culmination of putridity,
You deserve damnation in hell
A thousand years and more
Till you bleed from the wounds
That you inflicted upon others
And the swarms of flies make it
Hard to see your face
And the vileness in your cold, black heart freezes
In the colder depths of hell
Oh yes, how I wish to see that look on your face
The looks that you witnessed in ours
A very long time ago
I wouldn’t flinch out of human pity
You ceased to be a human a long, long time ago

सायरी

मल्हम लगाने बोहोत आए, दर्द छुपा सीनेमे
जीलो केह्ते हे सब यहाँ, जलन होता हे जीनेमे
सारे आस्मान भर आए, जस्न चले तारोकी
दिलमे फुल नही खिले, ना चली खुस्बु बहारोकी
सारे जगमे सोचा था, एक फूल मेरे नाम लिखा
क्या पता सबकी नसीबमें नही, हर कोई जो दिखा
अब तो दिया बुझाकर रात कटे, अंधेरोमे मुझे खोने दो
ईतना कुछ तो हो गया, बांकी भी तुम होने दो
अंधेरोमें, अकेलेमें दर्द भुलाकर रोने दो