Shri Any-Sin-For-A-Win please note

'Send them away to Pakistan!'
Send them away somewhere
Its difficult to be one's gory self
When others around are aware
That hate can only breed hate
And sometimes can breed vote
But love is a sure-shot proposition
Shri Any-Sin-For-A-Win please note.

Time for a conversation

There was never a better time
Or for that matter, worse
To start a conversation
Silence.

Interviews

Interviews
On either side
Of the fable
Are a table
Waited on
Imperfectly.

Aaj kuch kar ke dikhana hai

Aaj kuch kar ke dikhana hai
Kal bhi shayad aisa hi ho
Kaash kuch kar lene ke baad
Kuch nahin kar paane ka paisa ho

आज कुछ कर के दिखाना है
कल भी शायद ऐसा ही हो
काश कुछ कर लेने के बाद
कुछ नहीं कर पाने का पैसा हो

I want to be famous

I want to be famous
Have selfies clicked with me
And when I am breathing no more
I want a famous victory
Put statues in the city
Name highways on my might
But when I am done with holy glory
When quietly flows the night
Will selfies in your hearts
Click me as one kind
As someone after fame
But someone not that blind ?

Life lessons

If life were only happiness
And living all that easy
We would have been quite upset
At hurdles not being busy
For want is a friend of plenty
And pain a pal of pleasure
When we see less of someone
Seeing them turns into a treasure.

Half-complete & Fully done

Why are most things
Half complete
When fully done.

Garba

As they go around in circles
Of their own making
I follow
The straight and snoring path
To bed.

Leaving slime well behind.

Its not often
That it happens all the time
I remain me
Shorn of muck and slime
For to live life
Is to die everyday
To be born again
And try yet another way
To be me, my kind
Leaving slime well behind.

Facebook

Drowned in conversations
Not had
Floating in silences
Not heard
Facebook

I am the villain you had want

I am the villain you had want
I am your flesh and blood
I am your stated victim
And I am your secret stud.

Growing up

Growing up
Can happen
At fifty five
A steep dive
Tracking innocence
Arrive.

Dil chahta hai

Dil chahta hai
Dhadakte rehna
Dhuk dhuk, Dhuk dhuk, Dhuk dhuk...

दिल चाहता है
धड़कते रहना
धुक धुक, धुक धुक, धुक धुक...

Achhe Din

Now since the 'good days' are finally here
And now since we worked so hard, to get them near
Let's colour, or be coloured, black & blue
And pray that we don't shit in our pants, anew
Long give the cow, and what it excretes
To the 'good days' and what their fancy fits.

A mirror, to the mirror

Conversations with the self
Facebook is
Pretending to be
Social
A mirror
To the mirror.

If I were a fish

If I were a fish
I would be dead drunk
If I were a drunk
I would be long sunk
If I were thus sunk
I wouldn't write such junk
So there.

Neighbourhood

If you bust your neighbours
You will in turn be bested
By your labours
Lost on your neighbours
Nepal India
India Nepal

Ban the bun

Ban the bun
For it is fun
With the butter
Ban the Sun
For it throws light
On the gutter
Where we reside
Rashtriya Stop-this-that-and-those
Side.

Garbas in Gujarat

Garbas in Gujarat
Will no longer admit
Non-believers
In below the waist itch
And beyond the taste kitsch.

Happiness

Unhappiness is a state
Happiness is a state of being
One is like sight
The other is a way of seeing.

Some yang, some yin

And then I was sad
Can't be happy all the time
But out came the voice
And made it, oh so well, rhyme
Making me smile
At my little win
That's what is life
Some yang, some yin.

Marriage

Marriage is a disaster
Waiting to happen
Bachelorhood
Is one
What fun.