August 27, 2007

I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart

I saw this real nice movie the other day called "In her shoes", about two sisters who lost their mother, and revisit themselves and her, when they find their long lost grandmother. This poem's from that movie, for my Mumma, whos birthday's just round the block.
Love you Ma, wherever you are.


(Mumma n me.. in that order..)

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
And it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

E. E. Cummings






July 21, 2007

My Solitude - Part II

The rain pours down
And blurs my vision
Through the glass pane.
I feel the derision.
It mocks me,
It’s sneering at my mood!
All those drops together
Me in my solitude.
I open the window
Beckon it towards me
It sways away
Almost instinctively.
And then perhaps
Accepts me somehow
Moves towards me
And drenches me down.
With the endless rain
I now feel akin,
My solitude’s gone
And I foolishly grin.
I grin at the sky
And the lookers on
It’s a happy day
For my solitude’s gone,
My solitude’s gone.

July 20, 2007

Raqeeb se - Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Aa ke wabasta hae us husn ki yaadein tujh se
Jis ne is dil ko pari-khana bana rakha tha
Jis ki ulfat mein bhula rakhi thi humne duniya
Dehar ko dehar ka afsana bana rakha tha

Aashna hae tere qadmon se wo rahein jin par
Uski madhosh jawani ne inayat ki hae
Kaarvaan quzre haen jin se usee ra'naaee ke
Jis ki in aankhon ne be-sood ibadat ki hae

Tujhse kheli hae wo mehboob hawayn jin mein
Uske malboos ki afsurda mahek baqi hae
Tujh pe barsa hae uss baam se mehtaab ka noor
Jis mein beeti huwee raaton ki kasak baqi hae

Tune dekhi hae wo peshani ,wo rukhsaar wo hont
Zindagi jis ke tasavvur mei luuta di humne?
Tujh pe uthee haen wo khoyee huwi saahir aankhein
Tujhko maloom hae kyun umr gan'wa di hum ne

Hum pe mushtarka haen ehsaan gham-e-ulfat ke
Itne ehsaan ke ginwaun to ginwa na sakun
Humne is ishq mei kya khoya hae kya seekha hae
Juz tere, aur ko samjhaun toh samjha na sakuun...

Word Meanings..
Raqeeb - Competitor in love
Wabasta - Connected, Related
Dehar - World
Aashna - Aquainted
Raanai - Beauty
Besood - Useless, Worthless
Malboos - Clothes
Afsurda - Sad
Mahtaab - Moon
Peshani - Forehead
Rukhsaar - Cheeks
Tasavvur - Imagination
Sahir - Magician
Juz - Other than