while i was under that big majestic tree behind my building with the bright sun overhead whose rays were falling on me sieved through the thick canopy of the gorgeous green peepal leaves, i was feeling like i am standing in some heavenly place and God is showering the blessings. and at one particular moment while speaking about something, i felt like being there for deep and long, very close. 

There might be better days than this
but none as beautiful.
I have a blade of grass in my mouth
and the whole sky to taste.
There was a fragrance
which seemed to love being around me,
and the sun just let the cool breeze be.
I was that bird who was flying in between the clouds,
I was that cloud which drifted, it's mind unmade,
I was that girl who read the sun.
Such days, such times.
I would like to be like this day -
uncluttered, loose-limbed, uncaring, unburdened.
I would love to be like today-
light, happy, with the blade in my mouth,
and the whole sky to taste.

उपर का आकाश
अंदर का आकाश
उजाले
अँधेरे
दिल को घेरे
प्रकाश अच्छाई का
आच्छादित करता
संदेह के बादलों को
आत्मा की गहराइयां
उथले तन , गहरे मन
सुबह देखे
आंखें खोले
निशीथ के तिमिर
में भी बसी
है सुन्दरता .

First rains ~

The clouds are finding their place, she said,
they are here for the earth's first rains.
The breeze is up to greet them,
my hair is excited and agape.
Everything finds its reasons,
everything is in a state of amaze,
I wind my way through the traffic,
wondering at life's gait.
Put some music on, my love,
something sad, filled with longing,
the gulmohurs bloom without the rain's touch,
and I the living lie parched and wanting.
Why is my first song for the first rains
nothing but a sigh of yearning -
you are there, the song, so is the river,
but each one emptying what's empty.
Stop the car on the kerb, hold me for a while,
help stop the breaking - what's already broken inside.
The rains will come, and the want:
don't save me, but help me survive.