I See You, Everywhere

While fathers walk with their kids,
The way their kids hold their hands, rest on their shoulders, giggle with them, reminds me of you.
I get up when a man of your age enters the metro,
It gladdens me to comfort them in the littlest way possible.
I observe and notice the similarities between you and them,
Their grey hair, body language and kindness, reminds me of you,
I see you, everywhere.

With the passage of time, I've understood that you are alive in every being.
I feel you on a daily basis.
I observe your gestures in random people,
I hear people using the slangs you once used,
I smile when I feel you amidst random human beings.
It's beautiful that without your physical presence, you make me believe that you're here.
It feels complete to feel your presence, everyday.
I see you, everywhere.

आओ याद करें हमारा किस्सा

याद हैं मुझे वो लम्हे

In a second everything dies

हो इन्सान या ईश्वर का स्वरूप?

Daddy, Why did you go?

You are no more, they say.

Not with me anymore.

Do they mean away from me, forever?

But, what about your presence in me?
In every bit of my body you still breathe.
Your fragrance, your touch, your tender hands 
stayed in my memory and they will be Immortal.

You still kiss my forehead with your vigilent but vanished lips,
In my bed you cuddle me invisibly in silence.

But where did you go?
Why did you leave, Daddy?

That day, your cold body, whitened lips,
inaudible heart beats hurt me.
I howled, I begged, I cried
But you didn't come back.
Didn't my tears melt you?

I wondered how to keep you, O Daddy, with me, Forever.
I picked your funeral pyre's flowers 
And they assured me that you're still not gone.
I kissed you till my eyes managed to look at your beautiful face. 

Daddy,Why did you go ?

She is the Star and he is the Light

He took care as if he's a birth giver,
Hugged her beneath the ugly times.
Carressed her like an Infant,
Touched her as if she's a flower.
Kissed her vigilently,
Looked at her as if she's his sky.
She is the Star and he is the Light.