Peace

The sky is full of smoke,
No life can be seen,
Everything is dark here,
There is no trace of green.
Is that what our beautiful world,
Will be, some years after?
Will no child play in the sand?
Will there be no laughter?
Why should this happen to us?
Can’t it be prevented?
Can’t this cruel hostility
Among humans, ever be ended?
Can’t people love each other?
Is benevolence so hard?
Why do we forget,
We are all children of the same Lord?
Come, let us pledge together,
Let us join our hands,
To end this enmity and hatred,
Let us unite all hands.
Only then will birds fly freely,
Only then will children play,
When we all love each other,
Peace will have its say.

-Not written by me :)

दूसरा बनवास

राम बनवास से जब लौट के घर में आये,
याद जंगल बहुत आया जो नगर में आए

रक्स से दीवानगी आँगन में जो देखा होगा

६ दिसंबर को श्री राम ने सोचा होगा

इतने दीवाने कहाँ से मेरे घर में आये ?

जगमगाते थे जहाँ राम के कदमो के निशाँ

प्यार की कहकशां लेती थी अंगडाई जहाँ

मोड़ नफरत के उसी राह गुज़र में आये

धर्म क्या उनका है? क्या ज़ात है? यह कौन जनता है?

घर न जलता तो उन्हें रात में पहचानता कौन?

घर जलने को मेरा, लोग जो घर में आये

शाकाहारी है मेरे दोस्त खंजर तुम्हारा

तुमने बाबर की तरफ फेकें थे सारे पत्थर,

है मेरे सर की खता जो सर मेरा बीच में आया

पाँव सरयू में अभी राम ने धोये भी न थे

के नज़र आये वहां खून के गहरे धब्बे,

पाँव धोये बिना सरयू के किनारे से उठे

राम यह कहते हुए आपने सवारे से उठे

राजधानी की फिजा आई नहीं रास मुझे,

६ दिसंबर को मिला दूसरा बनवास मुझे.

- कैफ़ी आज़मी

Spring knows...

The Spring knows to wait its’turn
To sparkle after the winter dread
And burst forth with life anew
Reviving nature long since dead

First she’ll bring forth the flowers
Then she’ll awaken blades of grass
As she slowly increases the hours
A gift to man and all living things

She’ll impart a fragrance so inviting
As flowers bloom by her hand
The fragrant smell of the springtime
Spreading quickly through the land

Birds soaring across the sky
Echoing such a pleasant tune
With Spring as their conductor
Flying underneath the moon

For Spring knows she must finish
and complete the task of natures birth
Giving the task over to summer
To refine and prune the entire earth
By

I am...

I am white, I am black,
I will never stab you in the back.
I am red, I am yellow,
I am a rather kind fellow.
I am orange, I am pink,
I am every color you can think.
I am purple, I am gold,
I am young, I am old,
and I only sometimes do as I am told.
I am blue, I am green,
I can even be mean.
I am a girl, I am boy,
but I am nobody's toy.
I am mild, I am wild,
I am so much more than just a child.
I am me, you are you,
there is so much that I can do.
I will succeed, I will lead,
I will someday find my mead.
I am fair, I am rare,
I will always care, I am hard to scare,
and I will never back down from a dare.
I am average, I am savage,
I will always manage.
I am royal, I am loyal,
I am one that you can never foil.
For, after all,
this is who I am
-by Nana