Archive for August, 2004

tainted heart

i was reading a something in a book when this thought occured. “is love selective?” i mean, can you imply onto oneself to love someone? so i sent at sms to this friend of mine, with just the above quote, and she replied “if you want it to be…”, to which i replied, “what if, in the need of the hour you want it to be, then you try and try, but in every growing minute you feel that you actually are walking away?”

i haven’t heard back from her since then.


its just a heart, not a piece of rock,
why is it troubled so?

it’s not unknown, not a stranger.
i’ve actually known it since forever, haven’t i?

sitting here, dimming the lamp on lonliness,
advising to oneself that,
its just a heart, not a piece of rock!

departures and dreams,
who leaves, is the untrustworthy

whoever cries, wins,
because it’s just a heart, not a dream you dreamt last night

poets and artists, over years, try to convulge to only this emotion
that its just a heart, not a verse or mona lisa, yet to be tainted!

khuda ke waaste

hazaaroN KHwahishaiN ‘eisee ke har KHwahish pe dam nikle
bohot nikle mere armaaN lekin fir bhee kam nikle

nikalna KHuld se aadam ka sunte aayaiN haiN lekin
bohot be_aabru hokar tere kooche se ham nikle

mohabbat meiN naheeN hai farq jeene aur marne kaa
usee ko dekh kar jeete haiN jis kaafir pe dam nikle

KHuda ke waaste parda na kaabe se uThaa zaalim
kaheeN ‘eisa na ho yaaN bhee wohee kaafir sanam nikle

kahaaN maiKHaane ka darwaaza ‘GHalib’ aur kahaaN waaiz
par itana jaante haiN kal wo jaata tha ke ham nikle

With you I knew god’s face was handsome

i’ve been thinking so much lately about such intricacies, otherwise rendered worthless. from relations to friends, where the line should be drawn and to what extent. there seems no golden rule, which is probably why we don’t have a book to live by. the question i ask to myself, “does religiously applying the 10 commandments to one’s life apply in today’s everyday life?”

here’s something totally unrelated to this post. its funny how my emotions don’t really run on the lines usually to what i’ve been brooding on.

tonight’s art-work was inspired by a song by alanis morissette – simple together

click here to view the art work (will open in a new window)

alanis morisette – simple together : listen to this song here
(you need real player for this)

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