All of it!


In furious eagerness
I step out of my room

Cleaning the sticky cobwebs of familiar faces
i come out of my house

Bearing through the maddening chaos
that persists like a fast spreading disease
i emerge out of the city.

Then with no time to stop and stare
i speed beyond the farms and fields.

With a mad frenzy...climb up.

Then on the top,
with a pounding chest and trembling legs
into the loving caress
of a breeze that inhabits mountain tops alone!

Standing on the highest rock,
i look up
....
Beautiful, vast and so simply blue,
With a deep breath, i inhale the sky.

Its the same sky that i see through the window of my house.

I raise my arms and drown
into this ocean that spreads all above

Then with a tearing heart
I close my eyes...
' i want this. All of it!'

So saying, even with a tiny drop,
my heart has already become a little blue

Thus with a light heart and a breezy smile
i crawl back to the city!

What is more important...

this minute
or this day
the meaning of the words
or the sound of what you say

what goes on in my mind
or the slow continuous breath

The glorious temple on the hilltop
or the wasteland down below

The tiny dew drop
or the bright red flower on which it trembles

the vast open sky overtaken by rain clouds
or the sweet tender lip of a baby's half opened mouth

the mad pulsating intimacy of the lovers
or the tall motionless tree under which they
and countless many before them kissed

in the truest of the feeling what i intended to say
or the moment i paused and left it unsaid

the tears of the one overwhelmed with music
or the blind flute player who unaware walks simply on

the pure thrill and joy in the child's eyes
or the eyes of an old man on the park bench who eyes him with equal wonder...

the invisible answer
or just the ecstacy of this ever expanding question....

फरसाण

खिचडीवर, 

इडलीवर,
उपम्यावर,
पोहयांवर.
चवीसाठी जगणाऱ्या प्रत्येकाच्या मनावर!

चहा बरोबर
दारू सोबत मित्राबरोबर
किंवा एकटंएकटंच गंमत म्हणून...
डब्यात सापडलं म्हणून!

चवीसाठी,
पोटासाठी,
जीभेसाठी,
तुझ्यासाठी, माझ्यासाठी!

थोडंतरी,
चिमुटभर,
मूठभर,
बकाणाभर !

मॅच बघताना,
कोडं सोडवताना,
विमान उडवताना!

उगाच नाही म्हणून...
कुरुम कुरुम कुरुम कुरुम!

पाकीट संपे पर्येंत!
(खाताना बोलू नये!)

Silence

How beautiful
to love...
so that i can look...

How beautiful
to look
and thus...be drowned in love!