Poetry for the soul & wit for mind
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
You May Know or Not
You may know your faithfulness or not
I have made you my God
You may know your wish or not
Your eyes reveal the language of your heart
One life is not enough for me
To love you fully, I need to live many lives
Heart’s content be not, my soul remains restless
In prayer I say all that I have never said
Tum Samjho Na Samjho by Sandeep Silas ‘deep’ in Saada Khayal (2009)
Your Rustle
You skirted my dwelling today as you came to my city
My breath escapes me again and again as I hear your rustle
Once again shadows start floating on the mirror of my heart
Those who don’t have time to stop, they disappear with ease
I do not wait anymore for meetings of love
Or for sweet conversations and wet nights
I don’t know where the environment is leading me
My feet stop no more, listening to voices of this world
Teri Aahat by Sandeep Silas ‘deep’ in Saada Khayal (2009)
Unsaid Conversation
Do not become like an unsaid conversation
Sometime, you must say something to me
Do not get lost like we meet strangers
You must stay with me for sometime
Do not hide like unknown feelings
Bring one day, your love to your lips
Do not sleep like an unseen dream
Fire the sky with a spark before you go
Do not get lost like an unwritten story
Narrate something to the world, then go
Do not go, leaving me, with eyes closed
‘Deep’, you must always keep looking at me
Ankahi Baat by Sandeep Silas ‘deep’ in Saada Khayal (2009)
Plain Thought
Plain the thought or laden with nectar
I never let you be away from my thought
You laughed while you spoke or kept quiet
Each mood of yours, I filled within my breath
You met me with open arms or like a statue
I never let my eyes leave the direction you were
You touched me or became captive of distances
I, but, always saw love within your eyes
Saada Khayal by Sandeep Silas ‘deep’ in Saada Khayal (2009)
