DISCONTENT

DISCONTENT

Oh Discontent! How you fill us all!

Your presence leading to our ultimate fall

Crawling and picking you enter

With cell, tissue, organ you tamper

Corroding every wall of our interiors

You watch our ruin with pleasure.

Oh Discontent! You roots so firm and strong

With intentions what were you born?

To kill our virtues painfully cultivated

Or to incur the wrath of this our land?

Emerge from your consolidated shell

Break out from the depth of our cells.

Oh Discontent! Man that opened the Pandora’s box

Has Life’s cup brimming with agonies lots

Do not hurdle his path now, leave him alone

And depart to your own mysterious home

Let him rise and touch the zenith of satisfaction

And savour the taste of sweet sweet content.

A SANDY GRAVE

In the distant lonely land

Where man nor beast can ever stand

The biting heat, the chilling breeze

Wanders a solitary soldier lean

A wounded body he drags along

In pain to God he calls aloud

Sands of his life are running out

As trails of blood he leaves about

A parched throat and a skin so dry

Blistered feet and a heavy mind

Some rest, comfort or a caressing hand

Are dreamy tales of yet another land.

His dreary shoulders sadly bent

In quest of some inhabited tent

The soldier surges on ahead

Holding his gun in his hand

An ailing mother, old and sad

His heart’s beloved, young and frail

His cosy cottage in the village

Haunting images- not real, all a mirage

The soldier’s feet fails his will

He trips, staggers, his mighty build

Pulled down to the hot bed of sand

His grave he saw now in the desert land

A sandy blanket covers our brave heart

A dry grave decked with scorpions and spiders

Peace and tranquillity now his armour

An unsung hero, a memory forever…

उलझन

                    

उलझन 

धागे ज़िन्दगी के 

कुछ ऐसे बिखर गए 

गाँठ पड़े किसी में 

तोह  कुछ टूट भी गए 

पर कुछ ऐसे उलझ गए 

के घायल  मन्न  यह सोचे 

और सोचकर भी न मिले 

जवाब उस सवाल के 

कि ज़िन्दगी हम पर बोज है 

या हम ज़िन्दगी पर हैं...... 

                      ...प्रिया