To live inside
   your laughter

 To your hearts
    will I belong

 To write each hope
     eternal

 As all wishes
    turn to song

To My Grandchildren: October 9th, 2015

it’s not your fault, none of this is.
it’s not ignorance that makes you so naive.

it’s your purity,
your brokenness,
your stubbornness
and your refusal to believe
that you are worthy of at least an ounce of love, a minute of time.
and i am so sorry the world has tossed and turned
your heart, bruised beyond repair.
it still beats
but with the sounds of loneliness
and all your favorite songs.
i am sorry all you’ve ever known
is to be alone,
so much that you do not know how to accept love.

i am losing my mind
seeing you so lost, so lonely.
how i wish i could take your hand
and lead you through these roads
i myself do not know well,
but would navigate just for you.
how i wish i could loosen your blindfold
for you to see the way.

silly you—
how many more hearts are you going to break
until you realize that you do
because you are loved?

कुछ रातें इन्तज़ार में बीतीं
कुछ रातें इज़हार में बीतीं
कुछ रातें हम खामोश रहे,
कुछ रातें इनकार में बीतीं।

कुछ रातें हमने मनाया उसे
कुछ रातें उसने सताया मुझे
कुछ रातें हम खामोश रहे
कुछ रातें उसने रुलाया मुझे।

कुछ रातें हम साथ थे
कुछ रातें हम दूर थे
कुछ रातें तन्हा थीं बहुत
इस क़दर हम मजबूर थे।

कुछ रातें सिर्फ रात ना थी
उन रातों में वो बात ना थी
कुछ रातें वो रात ना आई
रात आई पर वो ना आई।

फिर एक दिन वो रात आई
जिस रात के बाद
फिर कभी ना वो रात आई
फिर कभी ना वो रात आई।

Lazy_winds

The impatient soul awaits.
As crowds push towards the train.
He rushes to pass, can’t be late.
He looked at others, the insane.

He squeezed against and did shove.
They looked at him, silent grunts.
His angry mood, bared no love.
He was used to his way and wants.

One more push and catapults.
Into the air and did not fall.
He laughs at them, at their faults.
As he flies pass human walls.

Surprised, he got no attention.
He roared at them, till the last door.
His super power, that strengthened.
No longer waiting, he could soar.

Everyone looked to the left.
Train now expected delays.
Some tears were dropped as they wept.
A red end to someone’s day.

He flew back in that direction.
A sudden feeling, temptation.
There caught in the intersection.
His body, the impatient.

eyes fixate on you
and everything else disappears
(but you and a happiness which wrapped so warmly around my heart)

my gaze which has traveled around the world, which never stays in place,
in those moments were only for you—
you are not just some photographs taken in a rush
of which i have spent time viewing on screens,
you are not a holy icon placed so far up
on stages which someone like me could not possibly dream of reaching
you are not a fabled prince who can only be found in stories—
you are just a boy in love with songs
who speaks in rhythm and rhyme,
you are just a boy to whom movements come so naturally
especially when you are thriving,
you are just a boy with a heart big enough
to be split into thirteen halves,
you are just a boy with a smile so warm
and eyes which speak volumes of words you do not say,
you are just a boy with a soul so grand
that the world found you and just *had to share you
(and i am glad you found me.)

with this i know my heart is safe in your hands,
and with this, i’ll keep loving you for as long as i can.

I had coffee at my lips
And good intentions with you

You had passion as fingertips
And a slow withering heart

I'm falling in love with you
Life is setting the punchline