Tuesday 20 October 2015

Through the night

I am at peace, fluid, agile, vulnerable
Able, weak yet powerful, happy
This moment, this right now, 
Is where I get to feel, to live, to love.

Like an angel she lies down in front of me,
Trying to build something for herself.
pretty, vulnerable, weak yet strong,
Hanging on to her smile
Shying away as she sings what she means
I see her, through her, at her, 
Glancing through all that she wishes to tell,
All that she wishes to share.

"Meri jaan" is what she likes,
and that's exactly what she is.
Sometimes I write, sometimes rewrite
Happy times in my sight
looking at her, now and always
As she sleeps through the night. 

Thursday 1 October 2015

The prayer I would change...

Today, on this day, I saw, I close my eyes and see that prayer, the only time I felt God, the only time I heard him, the only time I have made a real promise, I close my eyes and that church stairs wearing my shorts with my black hands from the lead that played with, I kept my tiffin at that window, on the left side of those stairs, people moving around me as it was morning and all students walking towards the class as I prayed not to get hurt by that teacher whose homework I did not complete, I prayed to listen back to something, to listen to him, my God.

That was the most special moment I have had in my life. Why I saw that today was much out of the love I have for someone, so deep that I cannot contemplate or think this was possible, because in the moment that I sit here and thought about her, and what I feel about her, I wanted to go back to that very moment, to that very prayer and promise and make another promise true to me . so true that I want it to be as pure as the first one, the real one, and I went back in time to see all those things moving just as they were 15 years ago at those same stairs. And what I said to God was to alter that promise, to change that a little, because there is something as important as that moment for me. For the first time in my life, it is because of her that I could relive exactly what happened that day, that Tuesday morning when i was 7.

And yes God, do change and alter it as you know am not lying, and this is important. Very important. I beg you to listen to me , just this once. please...please.
Dont hurt her in any way.....ever...if you see what I feel, then you will listen!