December songs- Alehda

इन आसमानों तले, इक पल अलहदा -सा है। 
ऊँचे पहाड़ों में इक ,छोटे से घरौंदे में छुपा ,
चुप -चाप  रहता -सा है। 
सर्दी की हर इक सुबह , में हर जमीं ओस की
- कहानी -
कागज़ पे कहता -सा है। 
इन आसमानों तले , इक पल अलहदा -सा है। 

कांगड़ी की आँच में , जल रहे कुछ 

- कांच के लफ़्ज़ों को -

- लाक के हर्फ़ों को -

- नगमों को -

- वादों को -

- धागों को -

खुद में संजोये भी है ,फिर क्यों यहाँ  ढूंढता 

हर रोज़ रहता -सा है ?

फिर क्यों यहाँ  ढूंढता ,हर रोज़ रहता -सा है ?

इन आसमानों तले , इक पल अलहदा -सा है। 

Alehda- In urdu means separated
Picture: Clicked at George Everest, Musoorie, India

That small building on the mountains..

Dear Man,

Here lie the remnants of that small building you once built.

I just came back to this place today, to collect some of them.

Here it stood.

Small, but strong and beautiful.

You had built it with passion and love.

decorated its walls, painted its windows.

The sunlight from those hills would touch it each dawn

and it sparkled, smiled, gleamed.
The mountains smiled back.

If only you could take off your glasses and see,

those cracks could have been mended.

For you were the one who had once said-

that "time heals all"

I thought you needed time

to feel those cracks and mend them.

That architect in you I had known.

Yes you came back again.

I thought you were to show me, 

that our building still stood firm.

for those cracks had been healing,

dissolving in time.

But, I found you had buldozed the building.

and built there a multiplex.

May be it will give you more comfort.

These mountains out here,

they still stand testimony

of....
 of both the creation

and death.

What do I do with these remnants now?

These remnants of that small building

That small building on the mountains

you once built.