The music of dusk.

"एक ख़ामोशी का दरिया है 
उस  पार कहीं वो रहता है 
जैसे तेरी ही आवाज़ें 
तुझसे ही आकर कहता है 

तेरी शाम जहाँ पर सोती है ,
उस पेड़ की शाखों पर इसी लिए ,
सुबह हर रोज़ ये होती है "

Silence can be music.

Silently approaching winters 
and suspended fog over fallen dew
bubble in me
- tales -
of train journeys,
of coffee.
of ink.
and sometimes you.

Silence
is not always
the absence of music.
It just depends
on what you choose to do.

Either you reach the music
hidden in 'their' silence.
Or you let silence make music
every moment, inside you.

Photograph: Clicked @George Everest, Musoorie

You my home, reside in me.

My rhythm had known you from ages.
You were always here, 
and yet out of sight.
I am searching you each dawn and dusk 
in the layers of my soul
Come, dwell in me, 
be my home tonight.

"तेरा घर उस पार कहीं है और, 

इस पार कहीं घर मेरा है ...

मैं पर्वत-पर्वत,वादी-वादी,

नदिया-नदिया,घाटी-घाटी 
क्या  ढूंढ रहा? क्यों ढूंढ रहा? 

तूने घर मुझमें है लिया बना 

और यार तू ही घर मेरा है।" 

Picture: Clicked at himalayan trek, @on the way to doditaal, Uttarakhand, India

The said and the unsaid.

"कैसे मैं तुम्हे कह दूँ बोलो ,ये  बात नहीं अल्फ़ाज़ों की 
ये रसमुलखत का खेल नहीं, ये बात है बस एहसासों की 
आँखों में मेरे ये रक्स करे  
मिल जायेगी इन पलकों के तले 
- ये रिसती हुई -
- ये उड़ती हुई -

तुम बस छू दो इसको आँखों से अपनी 
- दानिश मैं नहीं - "

How do I speak or write to you?

This is not a thing of words.

This is no play of alphabets.

This is just something to be sensed

- Known -

- Explored -

- Absorbed -

It dances right here in my eyes.

If only you come searching

You shall find it

Beneath my eyelashes

- leaking - 

- flickering -

Yet intact.

If only you could touch it with your eyes

Because I am not

- direct -

Picture source: Clicked by me on the way to binog hill, Musoorie
रसमुलखत : An urdu word meaning alphabets
दानिश  : Direct

Silence

In SILENCE had I accepted to live,
When words heavenly are sent to rebuild me all.
Rekindle a faith, wash those fears
Then this SILENCE tonight why haunts my soul?

And this SILENCE shall lull me to slumber this night.
And SILENCE has kept me awake.
In SILENCE I have found 'You' pure.
And in SILENCE had I seen 'Them' fake.

Ans SILENCE had brought us close.
And SILENCE shall take us far.
And with SILENCE You healed Me like magic.
And with Silence You give a scar.

One day.
My SILENCE shall find a way...
And set these tears free.
SILENCE shall merge them to Thee.