I need your shadow
Instead of my own
Infront of me,
Behind me,
Under the sun,
That aims to burn
Till we blacken,
On the feet-burning
Blood drenched field
with millions of mudcracks
By pettiness of each day.
The sun is bloated,
with beaming arrogance,
It devours million of fusions
Each moment,
Except,
Ours.

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What I toss off with a scoff,
Poem is what,
That growls inside.
A poem is not,
What I read sipping brew,
Poem is what,
That drifts me away yet guides.

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You've got to
come out of the one
you're already in.

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तुम्हारे होने से ही
होता है होना मेरा

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I quenched lights
The wind,
Hushed candles and smiled.

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Her breasts still contain milk and her eyes still gaze up on me as if asking if I've seen those kitten anywhere. Maybe somewhere they are still hungry and cooing for milk, maybe under the files or behind the boxes they'd have crawled into mistakenly. Mercury goes in and out, stands still, looking into the empty shelf where she delivered 3 kitten yesterday afternoon. She couldn't save them when her partner came rushing and killing one after another. Certainly they ain't known for their parental skills much. But, what a cruel behaviour, what a sordid pain.
They still hop and skip infront of me, become attentive and playful as i go near, expecting to get some belly rubs or a couple of biscuits, but it's hard to even touch them remembering that pool of fresh blood those lifeless kitten were lying in. Mercury follows his trail, plays with him, as if she has forgotten and forgiven too soon. Just once in a while, she doesn't forget to go and check again the shelf, maybe they're back, waiting to be fed, waiting to be brought up into fine bright cats.

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वक्त जाया कौन करे
झुकना मनाना पुराना हुआ,
इतनी जतन अब कौन करे।

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जानते बहुत हो तुम
बस कह देने से खुद को
रोकते बहुत हो तुम।

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Give me the strength of bearing a month way colder than you.

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आए भी तो नब्ज़ देख
पलटने से बाज नहीं आती

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