… Neither did I like stars nor did I get moon?
It always promised to come late in the night.
When everyone slept tight.
’Love me the most,
When I deserve it the least,
That’s when I need it the most.’
Shah Jahan sat on a cart in the Lal Quila
Gazing at white or red for a long long time.
’Never did a day pass when I did not miss you.’
Meri Dilli...
When God wrote her down
chips finger(ed) at McDonald’s
Connaught Place buzzed with connoisseurs.
At Hazrat Nizamuddin Station
Ask those mysterious rail inquiries and much more...
Lonesome(s)
’Come have some’ at Comesum.
At Lodhi Baagh
Desperate burials lay underneath
Shriek at the time of Delhi demolition.
While numb minds resting on tombs often think
’How does one decay lying live in the coffin?’
With knees known to unbend
Straight bones hardly crackle
Only calcium turns into that powder
Like that on modern girls’ faces.
May be Usmaan Uncle wanted Zahida
More than I - Suhani or Suzanne?
Even then all remain together in that den
To fight in that gali of Chandani Chowk
When that doodhwallah arrives in the morning
For the water discovered in the less measured doodh.
Moral: Cheat not any more.