ज़िन्दगी

ये जिंदगी हर रोज़ इम्तिहान लेती है, कभी सच तो कभी झूठ के दरमियाँ लेती है,

ये हर रोज़ ये ज़ख़्म लगा जाती है, पर उसे भरने का हौसला भी दे जाती है,

ये कभी समंदर मे तूफान उठा देती है, तो कभी कश्ती साहिल पे लगा देती है,

ये जिंदगी, हर रोज़ तुझे क़त्ल कर, तेरे जीने के सबब सिखला जाती है

The little boy

With the very first ray of sun the little boy wakes up and gets out of his mansion, fragrance of flowers is spread all around. Now his ugly servant is bringing a cup of tea in a silver cup plate with his favorite breakfast and then he goes to work(school)in his Chauffeur driven car and suddenly the ray of light comes from window of AC car , makes him annoyed and here his sweet dream comes to a sudden end.
In our wonder land also, his day starts with the sun, when first ray of sun encroached in to his sheds through roof made by holes. He doesn’t want to wake up again in this "Heaven" but has no other option. The moment he comes out of this “haven” he can smell a fresh rotten smell spread all around, for common social animal it is pungent smell but the little boy has become used to of it, like today’s mosquitoes are accustomed of mosquito repellents . Now he has to do cleaning of the ugly servant’s tea-stall so that in return he could get some tea in a broken mug along with handful abuses as breakfast. Now his day in this "Heaven" has already started and he is ready to go to work.
He works in a construction site as a labor. He works for whole day and in return manages to get little food for day. As the needy cannot renegotiate the terms and so the little boy has to follow the suits. He is standing on an open truck, his hairs are scattered, face is mud brown covered with black brown lotion, his half paint made more of holes than fabric and of course no place for slippers and shirt. Looking like a “Sadhu”, who has come away from the "Sansarik Maya" for cloths at least. He is staring spotlessly on the people passing by on the road. Suddenly he saw young boys in the school bus, and again goes for a deep dive in pool of his dreams thinking about" what these boys might be doing at school , I wish if I could also go ever in that school then there will be no abuses and slaps . I will get chocolates ,vada pav , biscuits and I could play cricket . At the same time a good dressed obedient school boy staring] to the little boy and thinking “How lucky he is, he doesn’t need to go to school every day and he will have no books, no study, no exam, no teacher threats”. All he has to do is play, play and again play. No one will stop him from eating more and more ice cream, chocolates". The eyes of these two clash with a desire to switch the position if they could. One could say the irony but I would say human nature looking for balance in life without knowing the fact he is already practicing it. Now the little boy reaches to site and starts working. After a long and a hard working day he got something to eat, which actually ignited the flair of hunger in his stomach instead consoling it. He again goes back to his own Chauffeur driven car (truck) to his mansion (shed).
Now he is back to home “home sweet home” not literally but subjectively. Today evening there is a celebration in the "basti" and as usual he is not aware the cause but fully understands the end result of it, “a free feast for tonight”. Usually you know the cause because you want to know and then your mind stops accepting the fact but starts analyzing, and if analysis is in your favor then only you resume the grasping with you prejudice way else everything is purged now. The same happened to little boy every time and hence now he is only bothered about the end result. There is big crowd surrounded around the "Rath" (decorated truck) and a person is acting the role of God with appropriate costumes, standing at the center of the “Rath”. As usual the complete set up is being utilized by a politician who sponsored the show. The politician was standing just beside the so called acting God with mike in hand. The little boy is amazed by this show; he saw the God standing in front of him and consciously he did not understand the rest of fact, like the typical human nature with selective understanding. He almost ran towards the God, making the room between the legs of crowd and in result getting the prize of shakes and slaps but finally he reached to the Rath and now he was in front of his God . He doesn't want to spend much time, he just holds the hand of his God and asks "Oh God, you are the almighty, please help me bringing my mother back. She left me and went away. Please bring her back, I will never tease her again and will become the most obedient son. You know, the ugly chay-wala beats and abuses me every day, the construction malik takes a lot work from me but gives only one vada pav a day, i often didn’t get anything to eat at night, So God please help me in bringing my mother back”. The acting God, who was angry earlier to see this ugly boy in front of him, now got into some emotional trauma and his throat started chocking a little, he wants to tell the boy the truth of his artificial mightiness but he couldn't. He was thinking "what kind of mother she would be who left this innocent child and went away" , then he asks the little boy “when did you see your mother last time. The little boy replies” I saw her when people were taking away her in white clothes, i tried to stop her but she didn’t listen to me”. Now it was very difficult for acting God to control the deluge of emotion, his throat is completely chocked, and eyes are full of tears, his body is shaking. The acting God started struggling with himself. He wanted to tell the little boy that her mother will be back but i am only an actor playing the role of God, i can’t do anything for the you. I cannot bring his mother back but i can give him a little hope at least.
The acting God turned to little boy and told him, " you will get your mother soon, do not bother about the little hurdle in every day, it is my test only. If you pass through this test, i will bring back your mother". The little boy was delighted. Suddenly the boy heard a big boom and it was dark all around and then he saw his mother is coming towards him. He was getting fascinated as her mother was moving toward him but now he could not breathe, like his head is in the water, he woke up and saw all around once again and the truth of “Haven” was that the boy was actually lying on the road side and people are standing around him trying to awake him by splashing water on his face. Actually, he was thrown away from Rath by politician ruthlessly. He is in conscious now and out of his wonder land, he is injured from hands to head, he is bleeding from many places. He missed the feast but still he is happy as he got a new hope to survive. Now he has become the part of survival group under the law of nature “survival of the fittest”, untill nature find a new fittest in this group....

It is spectrum of life.

इश्क

इश्क को चाह तो बहुत था, मगर पा न सका, राह मे मिले कई दिलबर पर अपना न सका,
चाहा तो फूल था, पर कांटे ही पा सका, दिल तोड़ दिया उसने पर भुला न सका

हाल-ऐ -दिल

न पूछो दिल का हाल, बेजुबान भी बोल पड़ेंगे,
जो दिखाया ज़ख्म दिल का, तो पत्थर भी रो पड़ेंगे...