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A Palm and Fish Food

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A Palm and Fish Food by Sandeep Silas in Borough in the Mist (2007)

Janey Kyun Aaj

Why Today

Today, why it seems you belong to me

I have seen you so many times earlier too

Had you not been, the miracles of Nature I wouldn’t have seen

By feeling you I was blessed with fame and elegance

On the instigation of the Moon, all questions those arose

Became a kiss and wrote an answer on my lips

Today, why it seems you belong to me

I have seen you so many times earlier too

Janey Kyun Aaj by Sandeep Silas ‘deep’ in Saada Khayal (2009)

Tere Aane Se

By Your Coming

I am awakened again, by your coming

Stay a while, alone, I am so incomplete

Let me sit with your tresses covering me

Let me think that my life is because of you

Wish God had come down from His heaven to earth

He too would have been your mad lover, and roamed like me

I had fallen asleep in this world, O Lord

Why did you give me life again my God?

Tere Aane Se by Sandeep Silas ‘deep’ in Saada Khayal (2009)

Bahaaney

Excuses

I go on finding excuses to laugh in life

What if, when I have a habit to stay happy

I go on calling out your name like a madman

What can I do if you cannot hear me call

Each lane knows of my love for you

What can I do, if your heart is like stone

I raise my hands in prayer everyday

If God becomes sullen, what can I do

Bahaane by Sandeep Silas ‘deep’ in Saada Khayal (209)

Ghar

Home

I can see my home in your eyes

All my dreams stay entwined with you

Say once that you have become mine

Like the moonshine you blossom in the night

You are smiling like dewdrops placed on flowers

You have mingled like fragrance carried by the wind

I can see my home in your eyes

All my dreams stay entwined with you

Ghar by Sandeep Silas ‘deep’ in Saada Khayal (2009)

Kehtey Hain Wo Mujhko

She Says To Me

She says, she says, very little to me

I hear her but, every moment, always

She glances at me just once or two looks

Her eyes but, I see filling the entire world

That the redness of her lips not color my body

I meet her rarely, though feelings fill every pore

Relations stand in front of me like a wall

But how can I return the angel of God?

Kehtey Hain Wo Mujhko by Sandeep Silas ‘deep’ in Saada Khayal (2009)

Chaahat Chakor

Longing of Chakor

Hidden I kept the the feelings in my heart

Never confessed to you the state of my heart

Had it escaped, it would not have had any value

Desires are those, which never ever come on lips

I keep on flying like the Chakor holding its longing

I have become a cloud that is filled with lightning

O God, a lover whose longing is so volcanic

One day that writer will reach the lips of his beloved

Chaahat Chakor by Sandeep Silas ‘deep’ in Saada Khayal (2009)

In the above couplets the lover’s longing for his beloved is similar to the Chakor bird’s longing for the Moon. A description on the legendary bird Chakor follows for readers:

“Chakor

The Chakor is described in Hindu mythology as a bird that thrives only on moon-light for its food.

Deep into the full moon night, the Chakor sheds its tears in longing, releasing the song of unrequited passion, for its alluring beloved (i.e. the moon) is unattainable high in the skies. The bittersweet pain of the fullness of its love makes life worth living, for on this occasion of the full moon night, it can see the beloved from afar, undisturbed, in her full glory.

The great ascetic guru and philosopher of Advaita, Adi Shankaracharya, describes the divine glory of the Goddess Tripurasundari as Amba, revealed in the face of the Full Moon. The Goddess rises from the ocean, clad in the luminescent jewels of the spray of the surging tide. High above in the sky, the luminous sweep of her full light releases waves of chaitanya – cosmic consciousness – dripping with the nectar of immortality. And the Chakor, thirsting for the charm of her enchanting smile, drinks in this nectar, which brings the fulfillment of his life’s purpose!

Adi Sankaracharya refers to the Chakor as a bird that is supposed to have drunk to the brim the moonlight of Goddess Amba’s smile, which is so sweet that it benumbs the bird’s beak. To counteract this numbness, the bird drinks moonlight, which in comparison to the smile of the Goddess, is termed ‘sour gruel’.” Source: http://arunachalagrace.blogspot.in/2012/05/legendary-birds-in-hinduism.html)