A land with love, peace & admiration
To you I salute with all my devotion

A land where live people of all kind
Various languages where we find

A land beleaguered by Himalaya
And perennial rivers running via

A land signed by a flag of tri colour
With courage, peace & faith depicting her

A land called as India or Hind
Where I'm privileged to born in

A land to which I call my country
With all my devotion I salute thee...

The soft chilly crystals
Falling from the sky
Has beauty of their own
Alluring than the beauty in summer lie

Flowers aren't dead everywhere
They are just in a deep slumber
Resting till the show begins
Then will blossom from their chamber

The routes all are covered in a veil
Like a child wrapped in a quilt drowse
And when the morn arrives
He will vibrantly from his bed arouse

Rubbing their eyes & smiling at the world
The chilly cold winter will surely subside
And when the spring arrives
The bloom in a valley will reside...

© by Ruman Hafsa
2016

It saved me from being lonely
It saved me from drowning into darkness
It is the one who hearten me only
I am beholden to it at the times of harshness

My art, my saviour

I tried being alone away from the world
I cried myself to sleep in murk being curled
My agony into anger I channelled
Nothing helped

So I took a pen & held it against a paper
As a thought struck to try one last time
And slowly words formed into sentences
And sentence silhouetted into a rhyme

With trembling hands slowly I began
As scintilla of pain pouring down my mind
Onto an empty piece filling it up with rhyme, my art
Engrossing me into it yielding place to peace in my mind

It saved me from being lonely
It saved me from drowning into darkness
It is the one who hearten me only
I am beholden to it at the times of harshness

My art, my saviour

Piter pater rain drops from the sky
Falling through the clouds that are high
Tip tap knocking on my window screen
As I see the beautiful scene

Flowers are happy & river feel joy
As farmers in their field enjoy
The children wants to dance & play
In the water, on the rainy day

Paper boats in the water flow
Of rain which has come to make a glow
Peacock dance as he shed his feathers
Enjoying with his lovely brothers

Animals & birds from their home watches
The rainy water as it dashes
But the beautiful scene of the rain still holds
The noises of water & rainy colds...

Flying so high
Up in the sky
My wings spread out so wide

Heeding from height
Appraising the sight
My heart ensue astride

Whizzing through
The bright sky blue
No thought of perch reside

Decline I may
I won't dismay
For crave for flying won't subside

For thousandth time
I'll do this crime
Just to spread anew wing wide...

You tease me and irritates me,
As well loves me and protects me.
I love you, O brother mine!
For you are a best friend of mine.

When I do miss you
I look at your face
In the moon shining up there
Every day I  see your face

When the moon doesn't arrive
I speak to the stars above
I ask them about you
I speak to them about love

Through wandering breeze
I send you a message
It calls out to you that "I love you"
From my memories's carriage

In the dark lonely night
Tears pour down silently
When the pain of you being far away
Can't be handled by me slowly

"May no sorrow touch you ever"
To God I pray this every day
"May you get all the joys of world"
To God I pray this every day

The love I have in my heart for you
Cannot be expressed by words any
My heart beat calls out to me
Love is for eternity...

You & I'll meet again
I know it deep inside my heart
We will surely overcome the pain
And we will never be apart

I won't say goodbye my friend
For you & I'll meet again
Together we will be till the end
When you & I'll meet again

There would be no boundaries
There would be no fears
But only eternal seas
And many happy tears

Like twinkling stars piercing from dark
Would be our life bloom in the spring
Wandering peacefully we would hark
To the birds around us sing

You & I'll meet again
I won't say goodbye my friend
For you and I'll meet again
Together we will be till the end...

I wonder what these clouds are
A veil or an illusion
Concealing away the blinking stars
Fading away the moon & sun

I wonder where the birds fly to
And where do they come from
Soaring together
I wonder what do they hum

I wonder what the lightening is
Welding the broken sky somewhere?
And what is the thunderous noise I hark
Dacoits firing guns in some affair?

I wonder who painted the sky blue
And who puts the rainbow there
Where the sun sleeps at night
And who blows the vibrant air

I wonder these things & many more
But do not have innuendo to
I ask them about it, they say "don't know"
I don't fathom how to solve without a clue...

*© by Ruman Hafsa

O my childhood come back to me
Again like a child I wanted to be
Embrace me in your arms
Soothe me with your palms
O my childhood come back to me
Again like a child I wanted to be

There were no worries, distress or fears
And without any pain were my tears
Only my homework was I to worry about
For only my chocolates I usually fought
Mum's Lullaby song would send me to sleep
And dad would embrace in his love so deep

Grandma told me stories of prince & princess
Stories of hers & his highness
And dangerous battles won by brave knight
With grace & courage who would fight
I would always get so many sweets
Many more chocolates & candies to eat

Those were the days of my juvenescience
Those were the days of my joyful presence
Then we're the days when time would tweet
Then were the days when bliss always greet
A horn just snapped me out the memory lane
Seized my childhood, made me adult again...

I love you my love & will love you for life
For its only your love that keeps me alive
Memories of past, when together were you & I
Sweet were they then but now make me cry
Then was the time when we were together
And wished we to live like that forever
But we parted despite not wanting
With love in our hearts never ending
"May our wish come true", I still pray
"May I be yours & you be mine", I pray,
You are in my heart my love & will be for life
And it's only your love that keeps me alive...

Like a river does the time flow
And we can't touch the same flow
Time is the essence of our life
Enjoy your moment & forget all the strife
Live your dream
For your dream you scream
Listen to your heart
For your dream you dart
Time gets spend & so does we
Spend yourself in the moment before the time flee
Live In the moment forget all the grief
Steal the moment like a thief
Like I said time never halt
So steal the moment & save it in your vault...

Slowly silently in the breeze of midnight cold
When the stars above twinkle in their best gowns sold
When the moon up there travels lonely through the clouds
When bloom in the valley to their king bows

Slowly silently when a little baby snores
When fishes in the water paddle across the ocean floors
And birds & beasts singing lullaby to their babies
When a howl of wind, melody with it carries

Slowly silently a lovely little dream knocks then
And softly it knocks on a door of an eye's den
Seizes your worries for a little while
And paints on your face a lovely little smile

Through the murk of night
Little light that shine
After a glint of light
Comes home when kine
Fireflies fly

In the dark they glow
Radiating light
In the air so low
Giving beautiful sight
Fireflies fly

On leaves of  tree
On top of hills
They dance with glee
In darkest thrills
Fireflies fly...

When the path ahead you
Is so complicated
Which one to choose
Is not yet decided

When the turmoil in your head
Doesn't subside
When your mind evolve dumb
And cannot guide

Simply close your eyes then
And listen to your heart
It stays on your left side
But never fallaciously dart

Listen to its whispers
They aren't just a rhythm
They are a secret guide
Which you need to fathom

They serve as a compass
Those whispers of your heart
They honestly direct you
And never fallaciously dart...

The sky is now covered by the veil of cloud
Hiding away its beauty & stars in crowd
Like a bride covered by a veil on her nuptial
Beleaguered by people converged in a chapel

And slowly it starts to pour from the sky
A Crystal clear liquor of angst from the eye
And for the earth, the sky does grieve
For the love of earth, whom it can never achieve

The verge where low sky mates with the sea have been
But the place where low sky mates with the earth havn't seen
And the earth in love of sky, gets immerse in its tears
She discern she cannot touch the sky so it secure its tears...

The sun slowly came down;
And the ocean aroused;
To welcome him with open arms.
Her waves danced in glee
Waltzing with the sunlight,
Athwart the depths of sea.
He comes down to meet her
Every day, as it ends.
And the ocean, upon spotting him,
Turns red while it blush.
I stood there on the beach,
Witnessing their union.
Rejoicing as they meet
The groom & his woman

© by Ruman Hafsa

Slowly slowly passing through the dark sky
Only the moon shining up so high
With twinkling stars surrounded by
Reflects in the river flowing by

Peeping through the clouds the moon sees
The dark path with standing trees
Passing through it the gentle breeze
Touch the apex of hills that freeze

From the dark, the wind roars
As animals in their caves snores
But the silent night still stores
The darkness and the grassy floors...

Even a lone ray of light
Is ample to subside your fright
Just a lone spark
Lighten up the dark
Just a lone hope gives you
A reason to live

So tired, when your heart feel
When every therapy fails to heal
When your life feels defeated
And mind says better be dead
It's hope then, which gives you
**A reason to live

Sailing in the clouds the sun rose
To give light & make the day bright
All the animals at night that snores
Woke up to see the beautiful sight

All birds from their nests flew chirping
To find the food for their need
The gentle breeze still keeps moving
To wake up the plant from its seed

Over & over the sun rises
And shine on the water in seas
Also the flowers from their sleep rises
To see the widening scenes of peace

On leaves a dew drop shines
As the sun rises high & high
Mountains around a river that lines
Meets those birds that fly...