WHAT HAS BECOME OF YOU

What has become of you ! Oh My  soul!

Once a shining star in the sky

You had led me!

Now a flickering lamp

In the cold winter wind !

What has become of you!

Across mountains and oceans

Valleys and gulleys

You had  led me with delight

Now you left me stranded

Within the desert of my very own mind

What has become of you!

A prophet  you were, once to me

Now you have left me to drown in my own strife

What has become of you !

Fickle and petty

Selfish , hateful

A shallow heart full of spite

What have you made me into !

In the desire for freedom!

 Have you snared  yourself into this trap

This trap of you own making !

Oh ! How long will you go around in circles!

Circles  of greed, hatred and illusion !

Oh! What has become of you !

Have you  forgotten the sweetness Love

Have you  forgotten the warmth  of happiness

Have you  forgotten the clarity of wisdom

Oh ! What has become of you ! My soul!

What has become of you! 

SHORELINE DRIVE

The vast ocean spreads across the dusky horizon 

The distant sun seems tired as it sinks in the concrete jungle 

As lights crop up and glow  along the jeweled   shoreline 

The evening is slow ; The city is chirpy

Helter and skelter;  people  and thoughts wander 

The mood is mellow;  and  joy simmers

Watching  from the window

As a million lives ebb and flow

My  auto-rickshaw  chugs away ! 

ILLUSIONARY SHIP

Uttering all that comes to the lips

Doing all that comes to the finger tips

As thoughts race  and  feeings rage

Striving to save self , the illusionary ship ! 

Oh Soul ! Don't let your heart drown! 

DRAWING THE LINE

Can one become two ?

When love is the emperor! 

Yet!

In the a sky of ideas

A line is drawn

The world collapses

As two heads face away

Oh! will only anger remain ? 

SO WHAT

This and  that 

Full of fancy!  

I am great;  I think !

I am the best;  I know ! 

I stand above all;  I feel !

Suddenly!   

In the last moment 

As he draws his  certain sword

 Death says! 

So what!!

CONNOISSEURS ON CUE

Connoisseurs of Art and science!

You and I! 

We think we are !

Complex, behavioral machines! 

Yet,when the bell rings 

Like the dog of Pavlov 

We drool on cue!

FRAGRANT DRIZZLE

In the vastness of the blue sky

The clouds gather

The wind are soft

A gentle drizzle fills the evening

From the fragrance of the moist soil

Can  dusty thought can rise ! 

HEER RANJHA

Oh Heer! Come here my Love! 

Where have you been all this while! 

I have finally found you! 

I once came as a cow herd  under cover of darkness

Today! I have pierced my ears and come to you as a fakir

My identity  i have hidden from the world

But my Love  for you i can no longer conceal

You used to come to the forest to see me

In the banks of the Chenab we used to embrace

By the gentle waters, i can still hear your heartbeat

Amongst  the rustic flowers of the forest  i can feel your fragrance

I n the boat of Luddan out first meeting

A rustic and a beauty eye to eye !

Our hearts melted and our souls  united

Love eternal ! Indeed!

But this life of separation!!

Oh ! How much sorrow ! How much pain!

Oh Heer! Come to your Ranjha! 

I can no longer hide behind masks!

I can no longer bear the pain of separation

In the name of Allah!

Oh My  Love! Oh Heer!  Come  back to your Ranjha ! 

TWO WORDS

Two words! 

One and all! 

Between them

The hidden truth ! 

The heretic says !

Let the wall collapse !

BURNING BUSH

Shed your cloak of selfishness! 

Leave behind your sandals  of ego! 

Within this  holy-land of Mount Horeb

The burning bush is revealed! 

A  fire that  burns; yet does not consume! 

A fire that harms no flesh;; leaves no ashes! 

A fire that purifies the  heart and soul !

And within this holy fire; my soul burns! 

Burns with the fire of  Love! 

Burns with fire of  selflessness! 

And in this land of the holy of  holy

And in this land of where  Moses was transformed

"I am" is revealed! 

For “Iam  who I am” 

And "Iam" , is  was, and always shall be! 

And "I am" is  here within !

And  "I am"  is theophany!

The heretic says! 

When moses removed his sandals

He still was a coward! 

But the will of the  Lord led him

So let go of your ego dear friend! 

"Iam"  shall be revealed ! Be Led !