फेसबुक की दुनिया का दर्द

खामोश तन्हा रातों की, बेबाक ऑनलाइन मुलाकातों की
उनकी मशहूर मुस्कान पर मरने की अपनी चाहत की
या फेसबुक पर उनकी तस्वीर रोज़ देखने की आदत की

किसकी शिकायत करें अब, खता उनकी तो नहीं है
प्यार के इस बाज़ार की दुनिया में, ईमान नहीं है
दिल में प्यार है तो क्या, हम कोई सलमान नहीं है

हम तो उनके इंतज़ार में जाने कब से टकटकी लगाये
उनके कमेंट्स, उनके लाइक्स, सिर्फ अपने लिए समझते आये
पर उनके लिए तो फ्रेंड लिस्ट का, बस एक नाम बनते आये

- चक्रेश मिश्र “अनजान”

The last cigar

Vinay fell hard on the road and a cigar dropped from his mouth. In few seconds, a small crowd gathered around him. As some of them tried to hire a rickshaw to take him to a nearby hospital, he could only remember the incidents of that morning. This morning started as usual september morning for Vinay, but what followed was not at all usual. He could not keep on thinking, It felt as if thousand ants were eating him from inside. A few seconds later he was dead.

An old RTI ad during college

Be the mirror?

He almost ran towards the gate on that dark staircase. Staircase had just a small zero watt bulb hanging from the cieling which made that slippery, narrow, uneven and full of paan spits stairs even more dangerous for a sophisticated twitter generation guy like him. It was not as if he was using that staircase for the first time, but mindset was different. Just when he reached that gate and started to walk on that well-lit alley, lost in thoughts, some horrific thoughts, a few teenagers passed by him. The younger one asked his companions, “100 rs mein kya karne degi”. One of the older one replied, “Beta aaj bakr-id pe abba ke diye paise se jo mil jaye ussi mein khush reh”. Then he saw affectionately towards his younger brother and turned towards Arnav and said “Bhai hai mera, aaj jawan hone wala hai”. Arnav just threw a fake smile at them as he was very habitual to do and kept walking.

3 wise men

what do I do, what to become;
must decide now as life awaits;
3 wise men, walk on earth;
one knows, one infers, the last creates;
a wiki, a teacher or the God;
you all know the answer, dont you mates? 

 

Dove and Crow

When you don’t know,

which way to row.

Leave the emotional spiral,

take it slow.

life is short and spicy,

people make a dent and go.

Good days – Bad days – Worst days

let them flow.

Time will compensate,

feel, enjoy, forget, keep it low.

It is journey through zoo of life

love both dove and crow.

Liquidation of heart

it hurts!

to me at-least,
when you sense with your little fingers.
killing is thy gaze, prolonged that lingers.
a moment, a bit, a blip, in heart is lost.
when that black curl slides, from thy left ear
one by one, I am loosing, oh dear
a moment, a moment, and another one.

you learnt it or your God hates me,

how would I know, submerged in thy seduction.

thoughts are opposite, logical and illogical,
if you are white, I am a black knight.
then what glues us, show me the light.
O trotting elf, as you walk, with me everyday.
I loose my logic, my mind, my heart.

you flow like a far river, forbidden.

thirsty, am I ?, can resist, can I ?

I know you can’t, have heard feelings of thy.
I wouldn’t, I shouldn’t, should I ?
let those roses come to me,
let me kiss your seven eyes,
till then, it really hurts, my heart.

a drop dropped on cheek in this night,

when you must be in arms of your compromise.

look, the drops, in an iron cage
for twenty years, can’t hold for one day.
the look, the sound, the smell, the touch
control the thoughts, as heart in dust, lay.
show thine heart, that makes mine liquid.

while he teaches you about heart, mine hurts

come to me love, you know, it hurts more

after the liquidation.

She smiled and the world stopped

She smiled ….. it was more of a giggle, a lone giggle, something when you want to say “yeh pagal ladka bhi nah ” with her one hand covering her face like in those old Madhuri Dixit posters. She smiled and world stopped for whole 5 seconds. Literally for him, metaphorically for you if you have never experienced that feeling, where you are running from polluted city, tall buildings towards a beach or a snow filled mountain but couldn’t just see it and suddenly at a moment it comes in front of you.