MeiN shaayar tau nahiN

but inspired by so many young sho'raas (no pun!) here on chowk, kabhi kabhi thoRi jhak maar leita huuN. So here are a couple of ash'aar in angrezi that I wrote a while ago. Both are on the same note, both were written for and dedicated to...errrr, actually not the same person...but both bounced back with same momenta (and so I decided to attribute these to my creative instinct rather than to my romanticism; hence I share them with you here).

A smile that makes the heavens descend
and makes the sun cease to pretend
that he is the one who'd brighten the life
from the beginning to the time's end.


As darkness descends on earth in a stream
a ray so bright as if the sun went wild
makes all that's around me glow and beam
just then I know, it's you who smiled!

(That's too much light for Earth's sustenance, isn't it?)