First Rain

इंतजार

Moments

फितरत में नहीं की किसी से नाराज़ हों
बस यादों को देख कर नजरे खता हो गई
मुस्कुराते रहे हैं इन खामोशियों में
इस 'काश' से जगड़ते हुए

जरूरतों ने मुसाफिर बना दिया
बस एक छोटी सी बात को बताने में
मुझे बदल कर खुद बदल गए अपने याराने में

- Rahul Srivastava

Words those were prisoned in the pauses
Words are now jewel shining like an art

Words those were the mysteries
Words are now wheeling with the stars

Words those never knew each other
Words are now alien limit of an ocean

Words those were trapped grazing the death barriers
Words are now cherished as a leaflet of quartz

- Rahul Srivastava

Stephen Hawking

With the idea of big bang
A collapse of a black hole in reverse
You were like a sky scrapper
Towering above the universe

With a trillion tiny universe in your brain
When a cosmos never makes a mistake
A subtle mind was awake

Duly of his proportion aesthetic or intellectual
You beat your disease with the exceptional 50 years

- Rahul Srivastava

Wander

To wander to be one of few
To wander to be anxiously true

To pass on the courage to the deficit
To urge them to keep moving through

To be honest as the sunshine
To be calm as when the winds breathe low

I wander to be a wanderer
Till the rituals walk with the shadow and soul.

- Rahul Srivastava