Before Sunrise

Daydream delusion, limousine eyelash, Oh! baby with your pretty face
Drop a tear in my wineglass, Look at those big eyes...!
See what you mean to me, Sweet-cakes and milkshakes
I'm a delusion angel...I'm a fantasy parade...

I want you to know what I think; Don't want you to guess anymore
You have no idea where I came from; We have no idea where we're going

Lodged in life, Like branches in a river
Flowing downstream,Caught in the current
I carry you...You'll carry me...
That's how it could be...That's how it would be..!

Don't you know me?...............
Don't you know me, by now?......

Invictus

This is written by Henley and was quoted by Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber-who communicated his soul through this poem on the day of his execution. Its a poem I believe, of the human spirit. One that we all have cocooned in us, but one that rarely seems to manifest, I could identify with the verses on a first read-and some of the lines were not only poignant, but spewed potency...

Out of the night that covers me
Black as a pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate.
I am the captain of my soul…

Random Shayri

तबीयत को नासाज़ बनाया तेरे इश्क़ ने कुछ इस कदर,

ना तेरी हा सुन सके ना ना को ना समझ सके...

कुछ लम्हे माँगे तूने हमारे इश्क़ पे गौर करने को,

दुनिया इस इल्तिझा को ज़ुल्म कहे, फिर भी तुझे मेहेरबान समझ सके!

इक अरसा गुज़रा हमारे इश्क़ के इंतेज़ार में,

फ़ैसला हा सुनाया; तू मिली, इश्क़ मिला, कुछ नशा हुआ...

बाद-ए-इश्क़ हमारा मयखाना जाना हम ना समझ सके!

बदहवास हुए तो ये सही सवाल समझ सके...

लुत्फ़ तुझ में, तेरी याद के बराबर क्यों नही...?

पाना तुझे , तेरी प्यास के बराबर क्यों नही...?

तेरी नज़दीक़ी, तेरी दूरी के बराबर क्यों नही...!

इश्क़ में तेरे, मेरे इश्क़ की सरक़शी क्यों नही...?

Sometimes...

Traveling enroute back to home
Road a bit straight, a bit curvaceous
I sit alone in a seat meant for two
I miss someone's company sometimes

I see a father walking with his son
The child misses a step; Father lends his hand
I think I have been guided by such hand before
I miss someone's hand sometimes

A gentle wind from the countryside plays with my hair
I feel it soothing when it touches my face
I think I have had the luxury of same touch before
I miss someone's touch sometimes

Weather; so gentle, calm, mild and peaceful
Sunset fools me for sunrise
I think I have befooled many sans any malice
I miss someone's folly sometimes

Hitherto completely standstill the flowers of the plant, I know not
Get abruptly disturbed due to vehicles' drag
Never so far have I been disturbed by anyone
I miss someone "swiping me off my feet" sometimes

Like today, sometimes I feel very much at peace
I feel the bliss of God in things surrounding me
I wish I felt the same every time
I miss my nature's constancy sometimes

Peace goes berserk; silence mourns and hence hails own death
Road ahead no longer transparent, clear or fresh
Thanks solely to 4 wheels and chimneys of modern world
Signs of the evolution of the best of the beasts
Honestly, I miss our primitiveness sometimes

No longer can sunset befool me for a sunrise
For how can it conceal the humans and their interference?
Thanks to human for "letting the truth prevail"
So what if I miss illusions sometimes

I feel people unperturbed with all this and have got into a rut, a trap
That imprisons them by giving "El Doradosque" bait
Same trap in which most of those before them fell for
Confirming the fact that we never learn from history
I feel its time to WAIT for a moment; learn, think and reflect
I think we all should miss the above STEP sometimes