Note On Immortality

I am the heart in your rib-cage

I a dream in your eyes

I am your untold legend

I your fading smile..

I am the air you breathe

I the shadow you cast

I am the touch you feel

And I all, that ends and last !

I am the path beneath your feet

Am your sky of flight

Am the kite that you soar high

And your weakness and might..

Am the one you come to,

Am the one, you escape from

Am the one you want to keep

And am the one you let go... !

Am still but a part of you..

A dream a illusion fine

But you, oh how truly

Has been a me..

And all that is mine.. !

I cannot take a step

In my dreams or in real..

My world has shrunk in you

Now in my every search

I find you !

Words shall come

Words shall go

Poems shall get stale and wither

But I shall remain beyond my words

And find my after life shelter..

That I have carved my home

Within your bosom warm..

Wither, wilt, death and end

Today, matters none !

Immortality has been labeled an illusion

I care not any more

To live in thoughts and love of thee

I have crossed all ocean...

I did reach the shore !

~Manjuri~

Introspection

In you, I wait for myself

In you, I search myself

All that I have lost and found

Always was trapped in yourself !

They say, way of faith is hard

I say, be like me, and feel

How faith shows way

And love breaks the seal !

I have not learnt the tricks

To hide and conceal my heart

One day, when I master the art

You, will surely find me apart!

~Manjuri~

Inebriated

One sip then another

And again yet another

Sip after sip, as I take

And throw myself

Out of my senses

I find myself in you..

Deep within the night's pulse

When all gets submerged

From there I appear

Mirroring in your

Awakened heart ...

Tight grip of life's fist

I move not, nor do I try..

Slowly I sink and melt

In you... In your eye...!

I do not know.. how time moves

Nor do I find myself..

At the dead of night

When I search for me

I find me in your soul..

Sleeping secured and tight !

I make no noise..

Tiptoe I walk...

As it might wake us both...

But from illusion to real

The day arrives...

All vanishes..

Along all... I and you...

Nothing remains... nothing was

We are but two shadows

Of our own souls

Sometimes alive, sometimes dead

Yet... there.. in partial and whole..

Ask not what I say in silence

Decipher not my words

Know that... I am still alive

Because, even today, I love !

तुम हो , मैं हु और हमारी आसमान हो

चलो छोड़ दे यह दुनिया 

किसीको भी नहीं बतलाएं 

हम चुपचाप चले जाये 

वहा, जहा धरती ख़त्म होती हो 

और स्वर्ग  जहा से होती हो शुरू !

किसी नील पहाड़ी की चोटी पर 

छोटी सी एक घर हो 

जहा तक आँख फैले 

बस फूलों की बहार हो 

तुम हो , मैं हु 

और हमारी आसमान हो !

आँगन में एक झूला हो 

उसमें झूले सपने हमारे 

बरसात हो जब भी 

छत्री , बस एक ही हो 

सर्दी हो… बर्फ हो 

जमी हुई ख्वाइशें हो 

तुम हो , मैं हु 

और हमारी आसमान हो !

निचे उतरु , तो जंगल मिले 

पाइन की ख़ुश्बू हो 

मेरी अरमानों  को सीने में लिए 

पंख फैलाती बदल हो 

तुम हो , मैं हु 

और हमारी आसमान हो !

देर तक रातों को 

तारो की  महफ़िल हो 

चाँद खिले , खिरकी पर 

जहा तुम खड़े हो 

तुम हो , मैं हु 

और हमारी आसमान हो !

~मंजरी ~ 

Four Liners !

So fragile is this wall
Between body and soul
That you touch one
Other gets console !



I am but a necklace of pearl
You my string of binding
If you are broken
I lose all my finding !



I live on the world's end
You, where the world begin
I shall walk distance half
You other half, perhaps to meet again !



I shall wait in my pace own
You shall take your time
Eternal be our waits of love
Removing our soul's grime !



Tell me not the memories died
Fake me not with your silence
Deep within the your heart's core
Find me, smiling in vigilance !

~Manjuri~

In Picture

Idle

Come lets be idle today

Do no work

Follow no routine

Take the car out

Drive aimlessly

Onto the open roads

As if we have paid the tax

Only to relax

On our route-less drive

Just to get lost..

In each other !

Come let us be idle today

Sit somewhere

At the world's end

No, not holding hand

But only gazing

Reminding each other

Yes, we do matter

Still to us both

And drowned in silence

Let our words die

Remain though, only you and I !

Come let us be idle today

In the heart of this noon

Search for the moon

Laugh, at our folly own

Live, long enough to feel

The drowsy noon's pulse

In our veins, and smile

For no reason.. you and me

Together, yet lonely

Search each other

As if we are lost !

Come lets be idle today

As the evening deepens

And our senses restored

A little in music

More in our wine

Life, urges to remain 

Stars wishes to shine

We, inhale each other

Night settles in our pulses

As we become, from two to one

And, then we sleep, in each other's soul

Forever!

~Manjuri~