लगा सर फोड़ने वो ट्यूब लाइट के चारों ओर,
घर आते ही ये मुसीबत, मैं गुस्से से सराबोर.
दिन-भर की सरदर्दी से बचा- खुचा दिमाग मैंने लगाया,
और झटपट गेलेरी में जाके वहां का बल्ब जगाया.

फिर कमरे की लाइट की बंद,
और बोली,” मियां समरकंद!
बेगैरत तो तुम हो ही, जो एक लड़की के कमरे में आये घुस.
अब बहार निकलो चुपचाप और गेलेरी में करो खुश-फुश.

अब तिलचट्टा जाके गेलेरी में फोड़ रहा था सर,
पर कुछ ही सेकेंडो में बंद हो गयी सब सटर- पटर.
मैंने बहार जाके देखा तो वो छुपा बैठा था बल्ब के पीछे,
रौशनी से कोई रिश्ता नहीं उसे तो सर ढकना था अँधेरे के नीचे.

ये देख के मुझे बड़ी हंसी आई,
अरे यारो ये तो निकला अपना ही भाई.

चमकती चीजों के पीछे हम भी हैं भागते,
दिन-रात सुबह शाम उसी आस में हैं जागते.
पर जब सर टकरा- टकरा के
और दुनिया भर से लड़ के पहुँचते हैं रौशनी के पास,
तो जी चाहता है की बस
कोई अकेला अँधेरा कोना मिल जाए और कोई भी ना हो आस-पास.

आँखें भी सपने को पाकर खुश थी बड़ी
क्यूकी गुजारा करने की उम्मीद जो नज़र आई थी.
सपना मज़े से रहने लगा आँखों में
आखिर जगह पायी थी उसने लाखो में.

एक दिन अचानक सपने ने देखा की बालकोनी में कोई डेरा जमाये बैठा है.
एक दिन अचानक सपने ने देखा की बालकोनी में कोई डेरा जमाये बैठा है…
जाँच पड़ताल की तो पता चल की आंसू भाईसाब फरमायें हैं,
और बोरिया बिस्टर लेकर हमेशा रहने के इरादे से आये हैं.

जब बात आँखों तक पहुंची तो आँखों ने की तफ्तीश.
अरे भाई आंसू ,” कैसे रह सकते हो तुम बिना डेपोसिट बिना फीस …
मैं तो नियति से बंधा हूँ ऐसा आंसू ने बोला
और बातो ही बातो में ये गहरा राज खोला.

सपने जब हवा में होते हैं तो रह जाते हैं
पर जब आँखों में बसते  हैं तो आंसू के साथ बह जाते हैं !!!

मैंने कंगूरे पर चढ़ना शुरू किया है चुपचाप से.
गुस्सा समाज से है या अपने आप से…

kindly read the post open mind for the background story of this poem.

a little more detail about sneezing
The custom of saying “God bless you” after a sneeze was begun literally as a blessing. Pope Gregory the Great (540-604 AD) ascended to the Papacy just in time for the start of the plague (his successor succumbed to it). Gregory (who also invented the ever-popular Gregorian chant) called for litanies, processions and unceasing prayer for God’s help and intercession. Columns marched through the streets chanting, “Kyrie Eleison” (Greek for “Lord have mercy”). When someone sneezed, they were immediately blessed (“God bless you!”) in the hope that they would not subsequently develop the plague. All that prayer apparently worked, judging by how quickly the plague of 590 AD diminished.

In my Graduation years NID gave me the opportunity to see the wide world. I enjoyed, got embarrassed, felt ashamed, became extremely happy with the kind of subjects and experiences I went through. For example, the movies shown in our audi, used to be from all over the world… though I slept during half of them (as the acceptance of my capacity to understand another language and culture is not very strong) but whatever I could see (the force I have put in to make myself awake and realization that I am doing something very very very useful) actually keep building a kind of ‘common sense’ in my character.

I always believed that good education is very important and an institutional education gives you a certain kind of responsibility and charm. But some how, because of the open mindedness(which one have to gain, to survive in the world where design means mehandi, t-shirt, wedding cards etc…etc…), in technical terms opening the world view… I tend to accept everything (one of those dumb) … so I believed that there are other people who does not belong to so called good institutions and posses ‘common sense’.

So here we go for the experiences I have when I started believing that ‘common sense’ is natural. Then I met few people who believe that age is just a number (that means they think that they are allowed to do all sorts of talk/stuff/behavior which are considered to be immature… its so pissing off to see a 40 yr old wearing three-fourth pants of magenta color and trying to act cool… its different story altogether when someone can carry that bright color very nicely…okk). They said age is just a number so that you stop feeling old and wipe your own ass.
Some people confuse common sense to openness and openness to all crap in their head. I keep meeting all sorts of weird people who think that acceptance and openness means, you are allowed to open your mouth about anything, in front of anybody… thats where I feel that institution matter, though it tells you to be open about subjects and people (kaun se collage se ho beta?)… but it never gives you to have the freedom to interfere in another persons comfort zone… A good institution gives you opportunity to know everything and then let you be there to choose whatever you think is right or wrong… but it never allows you to make right and wrong for society or to ignore the set rules …cause ignoring the rules may lead to the harmful ends (we live in the colorful country of religion and cast…donn forget!!!)… as if you are exposed to certain subjects, or if you are trained in certain discipline… you should not ‘assume’ the same for others… because only you have gone to an institutional training and not others… its a different story to apply you training to the society… sometimes one need to shit in front of the road and let people accept that ‘shit happens’. But one should do it.. only if people are behaving blind to witness the whole murder… It’s not like one fine day you decide that you are open minded one and people should know it…