One More Light

Stop for a minute Look inside you Whom are you running from What are you going through People won't understand But you always will Take time out for yourself Being confused is better still Confusion is just an illusion One to overcome easily Clear your mind, ease your life Even a monk can once breathe heavily When Life gets tough, The tough gets going Your problems are your plants The seeds you've been sowing Accept your problems Embrace them tight Running away doesn't solve anything Confronting them is your way to light Work upon the issues Put in more hours Even a florist removes thorns Before using rose flowers You need to be your own hand Mould your own cup of tea Seeing through the craftsman's brow Carve Beauty out of a marble sheet Life is what life will be You are the one to decide Smile your way through the present Or let the fear of future survive

  Don't be nervous Don't freak out Don't be scared Keep that tear out You're the only one you can count Don't let it out Keep the fear inside No, don't be a coward Don't say it loud. We do control our words And our dripping eyes But in those scars Engraved on our hearts Stay a million tears Stinging in and far Saying it out loud is not a sin Not an offense Nor an error Or an evil win Crying doesn't declare victory To the person hurting you Instead, it gives you the power To shove them all out Who've been stopping you Be expressive Just let it flow You're not by yourself We're all in together To fight it all out This is the point that We join our hands Come together and, Keep the fears at bay We don't need no more SSRs, No more losses or fall Can't we make this little talk To keep suicides out of our way?

Silence This silence helps us understand the purpose of our life  A second of silence brings peace and harmony to our confused mind Silence stops all the negative thoughts A minute of silence helps us immensely. But, With some people, d eep down It starts a chain reaction One which nobody wants Their greatest fears, their worst guilt, the sad feelings Buried under the day to day race of life All rise up Out from their graves Haunting them again So maybe Not everyone needs silence some people need chaos A lot of it.

दूर गांव की सुनो कहानी हिरो है जिसके साधू सत्तू दो भाईयो की बंद हुई शैतानी क्या करेंगे अभ चिंटू पिंटू चिंटू पिंटू थे दो भाई थे वह दोनो भी बोहत पत्लु रहते थे वह साथ जैसे लगायी हो कोई गोंद चिपकू साथ खेलते थे हमेशा लगोरी कंचे लट्टू मम्मी का था इतना ही सवाल और कितना सताओगे बच्चू? सबसे बडे थे ये दो शैतान काम ना आया कोई नज़र बट्टू उनको सुधारने के प्रयास मै बुलाये गये साधू सत्तू साधू ने किये अनेक प्रयोग काम ना किया कोई काढा कालू थक हार के बताया उपाय ले जाओ इन्हे राजस्थान के घाटू घाटूश्याम के मंदिर पहुचे पिंटू चिंटू और पिताजी पप्पू वहा मिला उन्हे स्वादिष्ट खाना जो बनाते थे महाराज पेटू तीनो मिल्कर खूब खाये बन गये तीनो मोटू अभ कभी वो भाग ना पायेंगे समझ गये थे साधू सत्तू खुशी से झुम उठा सारा गांव जभ शांत हुए चिंटू और पिंटू अभ क्या करूँगा मै मोटा होकर यह सोचते रह गये पिताजी पप्पू

बंद घडी भी दिन मै दौ बार सही वक़्त बताती है, अपना काम वो बंद हो कर भी कर जाती है| अब क्या बहाना है तेरा, ओ परिंंदे? जा भर ले तू अपनी वो उड़ान, आसमान की उचाईया भी तेरा नाम पुकारती है|

माँ मेरी, कैसे बतलाऊ मै अपना दुख, जब तुने ही तो हर पल दिया है सुख| कैसे बताऊ तुझे मेरा नींद ना आना, जब तेरी ही तो माँढि पर हर एक सपना है देखा| कैसे बताऊ मेरा डर तुझे, जब तुने हर वक़्त हाथ है मेरा थामा| कैसे बताऊ तुझे मेरे अंधेरे का डर, जब तेरे ही साये मे मैने अपने आप को मेहफ़ूज है  पाया| कैसे कुछ कह पाऊ तुझे मै अपने बारेमे, जब तुने ही मुझे सही मायने में है पहचाना||

I hate how people talk about rain Don't ruin even that with your feelings Feelings which people lie about Which people make you believe and incredule at the same time So don't see yourself breaking under that beautiful lightning Don't see the rain as your tears to be falling from the holy grounds Don't ruin them Because those are the only things which won't lie The ones which will love you forever Soothe you when you feel chaotic Help you sleep even through your darkest dreams, Unlike people. They aren't those friends who leave after listening to someone Not the lovers which abandon you when you need them So if you ever do need something really bad Sit on that window pane, Let the rain make you feel itself Stay an hour longer for that sunset Wake up early to see the sunrise Stay on your playground for a minute more Hold on to that basketball And hear them say it And honestly so this time, "I'm gonna stay with you, For the rest of your life."

क्षितिज के किनारे खो गया हू मै खुदा  ज़िन्दगी के मंजिल की राह अब तो बता  खोजते खोजते कहीं खो न दु हौसला  बेवफा, अब तो मुझे अपने आप से मिला

"What is it with you and the rocking chair? Why don't you like the chair anymore?" She asks again "I can't tell you, you wouldn't know" "If only the world could see what I Could Maybe then would've they known Where all their missing socks go Where all their misplaced pens go, Little did I know How getting lost in the deserted stuff Would cause so much of chaos I never wanted to be haunted by anything Just take me back to the road back home" "But daughter you have to tell me who it is that scares you I'll ask him to go away from here Will that help you overcome your fear?" "Mom it's him, it's always him, The one who stops rocking as soon as I come in The one who smiles only at me The one who talks to me like I do The one who is standing on the doll you hate too" "Who is it my daughter? Whom do i hate? Tell me girl, who is it Being scared is not your fate" "Honey, you...

Just because I don't show my feelings Doesn't mean I don't have them Just because I listen to cheerful songs Doesn't mean I don't sing sad ones Just because I cover my dark circles with a blinking eye Doesn't mean I don't have them Just because I cover my bruises with a cloth Doesn't mean I don't have them Just because I don't say it loud Doesn't mean I'm not frustrated Just because I'm not going to show this to anyone Doesn't mean it was never here.

Playing victim How easy it is Always showing how you got hurt Always showing others how HE hurt you Shifting blame on someone else, Off your shoulders, Not caring how the other one felt How he crippled and cracked and then…. Well then he burst Burst to bomb away all the dirt, all the weight, all the toxications Away, away from his life, away from his choices Away from his decisions, away from his happiness Away from his smile. So now he smiles Turned tables haven’t we? I don’t feel guilty anymore maybe that’s why you feel I’m sly, Never saw me without it, rather never let me live without it But yeah, You can pretend all you want Because I don’t need to anymore I don’t need to pretend to be happy anymore Because, I am smiling With all of myself.

A sparrow came and sat by my window, Do you have a letter from my love? I haven’t heard from her since quite a time now. Will you tell me how she is? The sparrow smiled, but did nothing. I searched ever part of it for the smallest bit of paper, Paper which would bring life to my day, Paper with her smell of love and letters of care, But, I found nothing. Didn’t she write anything? The sparrow did nothing, but smiled again. I got sad Maybe I wouldn’t hear from her today. But Wait, how can I see the smile? What’s glowing in his eyes? Why is it so comforting to me? Then it struck upon me, “Tell her that I love her too”, The words came out. And then, Done with his job, He pecked my finger, And went away, Flying high back to where he came from, He gave me my message And my heart too.

I walk down a dusty lane, defying the rules imposed But of course Medicines I had to take with a few chocolate bars I saw 5 people in a temporary shelter, Hungry, with a baby crying And also found 4 people just across Smoking a cigar and holding a beer while dancing I knew the baby was crying because he hadn’t eaten since a while now I couldn’t do anything except for giving them the chocolate bars Which I did, but I knew it wouldn’t fulfil their hunger, So the Next day I went again to buy some more candies But what I saw was astonishing The lane wasn’t dusty now, there were people all rushing to go And there was also one temporary shed, ignored by everyone They didn’t have food, but still they stayed in They didn’t even have a roof, but still they stayed in They didn’t have Netflix to relax, but still they stayed in If they could do it, why couldn’t I? Why couldn’t those people who puffed cigars and gulped wine Stay indoors? I couldn’t find the ans...

Everyone was beaming today after epochs Brightened faces with wrinkles The old mother who hadn’t smiled since ages smiled today The thought of sufficient food for even a person had never crossed their minds They had embraced malnutrition just like the poverty which now seemed chronic to them This light of unlimited food for all of them by the leader was too bright for them This meant the old hag didn’t have to wash away her little breaths now, By washing other people’s clothes This meant that dad didn’t have to see his bloody hands ever again I was very happy as a child but my dad wasn’t smiling I asked him whats the matter He told me these lights They’ve enlightened his life way too many times before But all the lies pushed him into the darkness much more So now these lights don’t help his gloom Because “Not seeing light is better than seeing a blinding one”

Tap, I wake up Tap, I thank god I'm fit Tap tap, life gets fast Tap, I think about you Tap, I see a difficulty Crossover, I try to go past it I can't Maybe I should give up Tap tap, I don't give up Tap, alive again Swish, I win Tap That's all I hear That's where I learn everything from that's all I think That's all I love Tap That's where I'll stop - a basketball player

An ant passed by! Another one. I wonder, what i dropped this time, I find my ant repellent , Try to follow them to the place of their gathering, "Mass killing this time", I wonder, But wait, They were mourning At least, that's what it looked like. There was the queen ant, Dead Carried by 10 ants. I still had the repellant, 1 push and they would all be dead. But, wait Am i reginald dyer? Is this the jallianwala bagh? Are these the people mourning the death of queen mother India? If I can think about all this while they being ants, Those were humans! Goosebumps rose all over me. I couldn't fire, But he did.

I ran I ran like I never had Feet stumbling, unknown roads to new destinations I ran like I never was set loose Ran away from all those shackles, ropes But when I started running I felt the difference The air didn't smell of the flowers and scent sticks It was now filled with the smell of sanitizer The roads weren't endless now, Every turn had a barrier The sunrise wasn't greeted happily by everyone Instead, everyone was fearful if they were the next There weren't religious music blaring now Instead, there were sirens wailing all around This world wasn't what I wanted to see This world isn't I wanna live in This world isn't what is gonna stay So until then, I'll do my part I'll stay inside And when the world is without the red alarms again I'll run, Run back on the endless roads.