Zendagi Migzara

" मैं ही तो हूँ तेरा पता हैं दूसरा न कोई रास्ता " ~ माही वे , इरशाद कामिल This is crazy, Noor thinks to herself. It's been two years since they've met, or even exchanged pleasantries. In this super connected world, however virtual it may be, if two people had not written to each other for two years, it meant they didn't want to or were trying really hard not to. No? And yet here they were, meeting in less than two hours. All it took was a phone call. Two years ago, when she saw him last, she had left a lifestyle behind, and walked into an uncertain future. Every single day after that day she has thanked herself for having the courage within and the faith in the divine to take care of her, no regrets at all. Not even of leaving him behind. She needed to walk away then, he was the only thread binding her to all that she wanted to so desperately leave. And that wasn't healthy, she knew it. Maybe he knew it too? She also knew that she loved him, but t...

your presence still sends a breeze through the fields of my heart, and in their dance, these fields manifest as a smile on my face. As though, all their emotions mirroring mine have harvested in the twinkle in my eyes, the song in my speech and the rhythm of my step. Such is the power of "what if's" People talk about a wholesome love, but there's such immenseness even in an unfinished and unfulfilled love. I thought I had left you behind in the journey of life, but you linger on, at least traces of you still do. Your shadow makes them come alive - reminding me, that a part of you will always remain with me. I pick up those traces and those parts to whirl like a Sufi dervish in my own internal delight.  I stand still from the outside, but my Being is dancing, do you see? कैसी तेरी खुदगर्ज़ी लब  नमक  रमे न मिश्री कैसी तेरी खुदगर्ज़ी तुझे प्रीत पुराणी बिसरि मस्त मौला मस्त कलंदर तू हवा का  एक बवंडर बुझ के यूँ अंदर  ही अंदर क्यों रह गया ? ~ amitabh...