I Live My Life In Widening Circles

I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world.

I may not complete this last one

but I will give myself to it.

 

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.

I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?

--by Rainer Maria Rilke

Alone With Everybody

the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.

there’s no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.

nobody ever finds
the one.

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

nothing else
fills.

- Charles Bukowski

Lust Story

'I don't want a relationship
I don't want love, love is too neat
I want lust, I want to be the one
you cheat with, the one you hate
but can't will yourself away from.'

Pani

Main pani hoon Mujhe Behne do

Mujhe Apne tak pahunchne do

Tumhare kheto Ki Mitti sookhi padi hai

Use Do ghunt Jeevan Ke gatakne Do

 Mujhe Apne Tak pahunch Ne do

Pyasi Nigahen, kaaley pade honth

dukhti Hui Kamar aur Pairo Mein chhale

 Unhein mat itna chalne do

 Mujhe Apne Tak pahunch Ne do

 main haq Hoon Tumhara, 

sirf zaroorat nahin

 Mujhey Baraabar ka batne do

Apne tak pahunchne do

Ek Gazab Ka shor Hai Mere andar

 Mujhe zor se barasne do

Mujhe Apne Tak pahunchNe do

 main pani hoon mujhe behne do

On a Quiet Day...

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget… another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." Arundhati Roy