Munasir

 मुस्कराहट की तलाश है

आँसुओं की चादर तले

कदमो की ख़्वाहिश है

मंज़िल हो धड़कनों के शोर तले

कहाँ ले आए ये डगर हमें

ढूंढ न पाओगे ऐ मुनासिर

इस राही को हमसफर न मिले

दर्द ने भी कहा होके काफिर

जश्न-ए -दीदार जहा

गुम हैं हम कही वहाँ

जाम ने हमसे कहा

"इस शाम को मुबारक बनाओ "

हमने ना , पर हमारे दिल ने कह दिया

"खुमार हैं आवारा हम

शिद्दत से दिल्लगी न करवाओ "

- Priya H. Rai

HEART

Its the way you smile when I look at you

Its those words that you listen, which I don't speak

Maybe your twinkling eyes make me blush

Or maybe your voice when you say my name

They say 'never look back!'

But I see you up ahead too!

They say 'behold the heartbreak!'

But I see the mending heart too

and the world moves on

Because my world is you

Love happens only once a lifetime

and my lifetime is you.

- Priya H. Rai

In the empty.

Its only when that thought clicks your mind and you realize that something is not going right. You want to run away and hide but you are stuck in the middle of the dark. Where to go? What to do now? 

Someone help! HELP!!!

Is anyone able to listen to my voice? I do not feel anyone's presence either. 

Then what is holding me so tight and not letting me go? What is that I am so afraid of? Can no one see me? Am I the only one over here? 

I have been running in this void. I don't know how to stop, where to stop. I don't feel any walls here.

There might be a door somewhere maybe? Maybe a ray of light from somewhere to show me the way....

- Priya H. Rai

Ever Again

It is the rain that has stopped but the tears have not.

When I try to remember those happy memories shared with you, tears fall down as if those are the screams of my heart. Every single step that God has planned for me seems to point only towards the direction opposite to you.

I give up today. I give up to God. I give up on hope and I give up on you.

You! ,  have made me this rude, heartless stone-like breathing creature. 

I shall shut myself down to the world today. I shall lock all the doors of my heart and throw away the keys where not even you can find it. Each new memory of you is now a small pin poking my heart with the previous hundreds. 

Yes, I love you and I promise that this feeling will never change but I don't want to see your face  again.... I don't want to hug you again... I don't want to feel your soft lips and hold your hands again. I don't want to see your smile. 

I don't want you ever again.

- Priya H. Rai

Little While

It was a little while

that she had held him tight

afraid to lose the moment at sight

The deep red sky

and the fading sunlight 

planned to stop her for a while

As she kept that smile

on her face

watching the day

getting faded away

- Priya H. Rai