Time Travel...

... kambaqt dil ka zikr bayaan hai yun barbaad...
... jaane kyun dhadkta hai behayaa aaj bhi tere inkaar ke baad...

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... did the sands of time change the language of love while I was busy holding on, caressing 'n worshiping ya... guess I would never know...

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... uske jaane ka gham ab, mera hai mukammal sab...
... ashq sookhe par, dil bhare rahe...
... waqt de marham par, zakhm hare rahe...

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... bepanaah teri chahat mein, jo manzar jannat ka hai naseeb hua...
... ab aaqabat mein uss se, Khuda bhi kahan behtar mukaam dega...

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... anjaan hoon apne mustaqbil se, na malum anjaam kya hoga...
... par jaanta hoon meri har saans rahegi ghulam teri, mujh se azaad hone tak...

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... tujh mein paa kar Khuda, kar raha hoon apni saanson se wafaa...
... jaanta hoon par haath ki lakeeren, karti hai mere khawabon se jafaa...

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... seeking sky for my share, failing again, yet God is too fair...
... waiting forever at end of the line, for a glimpse of heaven, that isn't mine...

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... am trying to find myself by running away from myself... 'n that is a paradox just like I am...

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.... qayamat hui fakat do baar... ek tere aane se pehle, ek tere jaane ke baad...

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... dushmani mehngi pade phir bhi kaun kamzarf gham karta hai...
... mohabbat sasti ho jaye to yakeenan aks khaak mein bikharta hai...

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We don't talk anymore; and I can't understand why...
It's like you gave me wings, then told me it's illegal to fly...

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Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

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... my life has turned around.... earlier I was insane 'coz I was in love... 'n now I am in love 'coz I am insane...

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A few words I live by... Pain is in inevitable but suffering is optional...

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Strangely, a blatant lie can often be the most revealing truth.

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A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of love never...
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If life was devoid of realities there would be no meaning to life...
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I wish I could peak at the last few pages to see how it ends. The journey's too long 'n unpredictable at times...

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... yakeenan Rabb shamil hai lakeeron se hoti meri kashmakash mein...
... aitamaad hai par badlega naseeb na milne wali kinaro ka ek sailaab ke baad...

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mausam ki tarah badalta hai ishq maayne yahan har pal...
zinda hai ehsaas tabhi doob raha hain, bismil hota to taerta yeh bhi teri tarah...

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... deewangi ka sabab kaho ya samjho isse ibaadat ka mazhab...
... jalata hoon khud ko taki roshan rahe shamma mohabbat ki...

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... ya'r lucky if a nightmare ends in few hours... ya'r loki if it doesn't...

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... nahi jaanta kyun hua aks juda ek anjani shaam...
... dhoondta hoon isliye ab main shab mein rahat ka mukaam...

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I realize it's forever impossible for me to believe in the dark side of the sunshine, 'n thus I seek a ray of light in the night revealed...

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... it's true that love doesn't belong to me... but it is truer that I absolutely belong to love... always 'n forever...


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I believe one needs an equal portion each of love 'n compassion, pain 'n passion 'n infinite insanity to write or even enjoy poetry...

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... ya can like 'n unlike... but can never love 'n un-love...

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... an incorrigible or am a dumb brave...
... blessed or is it a fragile pave...
... heaven or am I in the grave..
... Almighty gave but not for what I pray...

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The average nutritional value of promises is roughly zero.

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Kab laut ke aaoge
Israr nahi karta
Itna mere bas mein hai
Main umr ghata loonga
~Shaaz Tamkinat~

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... the purest of pure, forever indestructible, an elixir eternal, die...
... a wasted irreparable, a decaying insanity, still lives a lie...

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... abtar hui meri rooh ne poocha Khuda se kyun kiya mismaar...
... marne de, zakhm nahi, hai kabr yeh, na kured baar baar...

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History segregated the events by tagging the dateline as BC or AD. But love is timeless. Can't split the feelings into a before 'n after...

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Life may have no meaning, or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove...

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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers...~Voltaire~

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To fall in love is awfully simple, to fall out of love is simply awful...

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... ain't sure what hurts more... when ya stop loving the person ya trust... or when ya stop trusting the person ya love...

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Absolut is an eternal elixir but inexplicably at the moment it's enacting as a mortal sin... instead of making me stop seeking the answers, it is bringing a total recall of all the inquest which even otherwise I am unable to obliterate... Rabb ji, I pray, please let it be only a temporary phase... all of a sudden, ya can't possibly rob me of the only sanity that I ever found, God's aren't supposed to do that...

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to ya till your life has illustrated it...

~John Keats~
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The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross 'n which to burn...~David Russell~

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It is love when you hold someones hand 'n start walking 'n the person walks with you without asking where 'n why...

~Madonna~
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Life will hand ya a bowl of peeled mangoes 'n peaches. It'll all look the same. Ya can only tell them apart if you taste each piece...

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Dear God...

Please stop treating Love as a replica of the board-game of Snakes 'n Ladders...

Thanks already...

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In life, the one person who brings out the very best in ya 'n who makes ya the strongest ironically also becomes ya'r biggest weakness ever...

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... kabhi sambhala tha jinko palko pe ki unpe aanch na aaye...
... yun nazaren pheri uss rehnuma ne ki apni hi nazar mein ab gir gaya hoon main...

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... jaanta hoon Khuda ka Khuda aur hai, par yakeen nahi karta...
... shiddat aur deewangi ka farq karna aata nahi meri ibaadat ko...

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods...~ Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957...
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far ya can go without going too far...~Jean Cocteau~
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Aaj kisi ne dil toda toh hum ko jaise dhyan aaya...
jiss ka dil hum ne toda tha woh jane kaisa hoga...

~Javed Akhtar~

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... mehsoos hota hai har hajoom ek sannaata bin tere...
... dil ka khamosh dhadakna bhi ab lagta mujhe shor hai...

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... hairaan nahi hota main ab gar dil tutta hai kisi ka...
... ab toh pyaar ki kamayambi pe chaunk jaata hoon main...

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... nahi janoon se anjaan, khafaa hai par ibaadat se meri...
... uss se pehle naam tera leta hoon, yeh haar Khuda ko naagavaar hai...

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... lakeeron se jo mil rahi hai shikast deewane ke afsaano ko...
... Khuda ko paane ki justaju, iss liye lagti gunaah hai yahan sayaano ko...

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Dear Heart, fall in love when you're ready, not when you're lonely...

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If we go down, we go down together, because when I said best friends, I meant forever...

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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never...~Charles Caleb Colton~

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Ranj toh yeh hai ke woh ahed-e-wafaa toot gayaa
Bewafa koi bhi ho, tum na sahi hum hi sahi...

~Javed Akhtar~
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marghat si sunsaan hai, jaise ho kisi veerane mein sannaata shamil...
hairat itni khamoshi mein zindagi ki pukaar shor lagti hai mere Khuda ko...

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There is only so far you can fall, but there is no limit to how high you can soar...

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... how much time does one need to un-soul the soul-mate... years... months... days... kuch ghante... bas ek pal... 'n how does one do it...

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Jaate jaate woh mujhe achi nishani de gaya...
Umar bhar dohraonga aisi kahani degaya...
~Javed Akhtar~

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Khawab ke gaon mein paley hain hum...
Paani chhalni mein le chaley hain hum...

~Javed Akhtar~

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Those who danced were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music...

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Some seize with their wit... Others just cease with it...

Comprehending punctuation is as important as understanding the words...
"ya suck!" ain't the same as "ya suck?"

People are like clouds... some bring blissful rains... others merely block the light...

Some see the birds soar up in the sky 'n wish they too could fly higher...

Others just wonder who they would shit upon if they get a chance to fly too...

Of all that I was unable to learn, not learning how to unlove has been the wisest learning of my life...

The beauty of jigsaw puzzle is that all the pieces are unique, none can replace the other, 'n though sometimes the mystery is solved, yet the picture remains incomplete sans the one missing piece...

The beauty of life is that it is alike a jigsaw puzzle too...

We live in the times when not only destiny conceives a web but equally web contrives a destiny too...

Dear God... I'd rather have people who came in my life thru an accident but stayed on purpose than those who came in my life with a purpose but stayed thru an accident... Amen...

I wonder if drinking 'n driving can be considered multitasking...

The boon of not having a brain is that I am immune of dying from brain hemorrhage...

Randomness...

Love sucks... True love swallows...

err... end of the periods is called menopause... period!!!

Bipolar isn't the term for living in the North or the South pole 'n swinging both ways... or wait a second, maybe it is...

People who live in the glass houses shouldn't be living in Delhi; the summers are just too hot for it...

well-wishers aren't sycophants; 'n vice versa...

Common sense is an illusion for those, to whom illusion is the only common sense...

The difference...

Walls are created either to hold ya in or to keep ya out 'n it's imperative to ably differentiate between the two...

Loki is Lucky...

The only thing I know is that I don't know anything despite knowing something more than nothing... Every moment that I've lived is an event 'coz these in it's entirety 'n it's fraction have made me feel alive even when I would've gladly or sadly died... Everybody I have met is a teacher of a sorts since they have taught me one lesson or the other, sometimes consciously 'n at other times unawares... Loki is Lucky...

In the end, I'd end up becoming just a memory for few... I might as well try my best to make it a good one...

If I was Nike 'n ya were McDonalds, I would be doing it 'n ya would be lovin' it...

Fake merchandise is not a menace; Fake people certainly are...

I respect ya'r right to live; It's not essentially the same as I respect ya...

It takes much more than a few hundred sycophants for anyone to become a Rainmaker...

Breaching the sanctity of a bond 'n indulging in character assassination behind someone's back is more abusive than swearing the cuss words.

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Courtesy is a courtesy only amongst the courteous people... Respect begets respect, disdain begets disdain...

The one moral of an absolutely immoral life...

Be it between friends, lovers, soulmates or family, emotional support is a blessing but emotional dependency is a curse...

I follow a rather simple rule in life, NO PAIN, NO PAIN... Am not going to hurt anyone 'n neither will I allow anyone to hurt me either...

Ya lose some, ya gain some... but all in all, life's a great leveler... Cheers to life...

Spirituality brings awareness; I now realize that forgetting to give me a brain was an unintentional gaffe of God... Peace!!!