Straight from heart

Why Caesium was ever discovered ? Why a 'second' was ever defined ? Why clocks have wings ? Why Time files ? The fourth dimension has baffled the scientists and commoners alike. I've heard even Time follows relativity concepts. It better be. Sometimes ages pass in the blink of an eye and at other times, the eyes never blink. And as Einstein himself said "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." Reading it is one thing, experiencing it is another. I wish how Stephen Hawkins's prediction had been true that there must be a hole in the net of time and space and puncturing through it one can actually defeat time as it exists now.

But the swing of pendulum is inevitable and so is departure. I have seen some and digested it with poise. But memories always haunt and its the bitter truth. Memories are like elastic balls which rise higher on every bounce.

Dedicated to all my friends in general and Tata Steel friends in particular..

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(Inspired, edited and customized...Full credits to the anonymous who inspired me to compose this)

A loner who,

lives by chance
loves by choice
survives by profession
meets by fate
and departs with poise

A thousand years, a thousand more,
A thousand times a million doors to eternity
I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times
An endless turning stairway climbs
To a tower of souls
If it takes another thousand years, a thousand wars,
The towers rise to numberless floors in space
I could shed another million tears, a million breaths,
A million names but only one truth to face

A thousand roads, a million fears
A million suns, ten million years of uncertainty
I could speak a million lies a thousand times
If ever I could, those nursery rhymes
A million beats, a thousand songs
A million rights, and ten thousand wrongs
But if there was a single source, a single light
A single thought, a singular touch of grace

A single passion, a single game
Preserving sanctity of the "Tendulkar" name
A single glory and the hall of fame
how we watched that frame by frame..
A single infatuation, a million flames
Nothing achieved but a billion blames

If there ever was a single universe, a single truth
Felt it with a single heart, a single emotion
Following this single point , this single flame,
The single haunted memory of your presence

I still love you all
I still miss u you all
A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves
Like galaxies in my head

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और जाते जाते भगवतीचरण वर्मा  कि ये पंक्तियाँ कितनी सच जान पड़ती हैं ..............

हम दिवानों की क्या हस्ती,
हैं आज यहाँ कल वहाँ चले
मस्ती का आलम साथ चला,
हम धूल उड़ाते जहाँ चले 

आए बनकर उल्लास कभी,
आँसू बनकर बह चले अभी
सब कहते ही रह गए,
अरे तुम कैसे आए, कहाँ चले 

किस ओर चले? मत ये पूछो,
बस चलना है इसलिए चले
जग से उसका कुछ लिए चले,
जग को अपना कुछ दिए चले 

दो बात कहीं, दो बात सुनी,
कुछ हँसे और फिर कुछ रोए
छक कर सुख दुःख के घूँटों को,
हम एक भाव से पिए चले 

हम भिखमंगों की दुनिया में,
स्वछन्द लुटाकर प्यार चले
हम एक निशानी उर पर,
ले असफलता का भार चले 

हम मान रहित, अपमान रहित,
जी भर कर खुलकर खेल चुके
हम हँसते हँसते आज यहाँ,
प्राणों की बाजी हार चले 


अब अपना और पराया क्या,
आबाद रहें रुकने वाले
हम स्वयं बंधे थे, और स्वयं,
हम अपने बन्धन तोड़ चले 

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और किसी अनजान शायर कि ये पंक्तियाँ ....

 मैं दिल का अमीर, मुक़द्दर का गरीब था
मिलकर बिछड़ना ही मेरा नसीब था 
चाह कर भी कुछ ना कर सके हम
घर भी जलता रहा और समंदर भी करीब था