मेरे शहर में अब...

मेरे शहर में अब...

मैं, तुम तो बहुत हो गये हैं पर हम नहीं है अब

गाड़ियाँ तो अब बहुत हो गयी है पर मंजिलों की दूरियां बढ़ गयी हैं

अब पक्के मकान तो बहुत बन गए है पर घर कमजोर हो गए हैं

लोगों को अब बहुत चीजों की जानकारी हो गयी है पर उनमे खाम्मोशी अब ज्यादा है

 

मेरे शहर में अब...

बिजली की रौशनी तो हो गयी है पर दिलों में अँधेरा बढ़ गया है

नौजवान तो बहुत हैं अब पर जवानी अभी से थक चुकी है

इश्क तो बहुत होते है पर प्रेम कहनियाँ अब सुनने में नहीं आती हैं

घर तो ऊँचे हो गए हैं पर पैर जमीन से दूर हो गए हैं

बच्चे अब स्वतन्त्र हो गए हैं पर अपने पुराने रिश्तों से भी आजाद हो गए है

मेरे शहर में अब...

रेस्तौरांत तो बहुत हैं आजकल पर लोग सड़कों पर अब ज्यादा भीख मांगते हुए दीखते हैं

कपडे तो अब बहुत तरह के मिलते हैं पर तन पूरा ढकने के लिए वो अब भी कम ही हैं

पेड़ों पर फल तो आज भी लगते हैं पर अब बच्चों में पत्थर फेकने का साहस नहीं है
गंगा नदी और भी चौड़ी होकर बहने लगी है पर उसका पानी अब कम हो गया है

शाम को सडको पर भीड़ तो होती है पर खेल के मैदान सुने हो गए हैं अब

मेरे शहर में अब...

पढ़े लिखे लोग तो बहुत हो गए हैं पर संस्कार्रों की कमी हो गयी है

लोग अमीर तो अब बहुत हो गए हैं पर देने के लिए अब  कुछ भी नहीं है

खाने की अब कमी तो नहीं रही पर लोग कमजोर और बीमार हो गए हैं

शहर तो बहुत बढ़ गया है पर गलियाँ संकरी हो गयी हैं

टूथ पेस्ट तो हर ब्रांड का मिल जाता है पर नीम के पेड़ नहीं मिलते है अब

बहुत कुछ और भी बदल गया है मेरे शहर में

लेकिन माँ आज भी वैसी ही हैं

इसलिए आज भी मुझे पहले जैसा ही लगता है मेरा शहर...

(C) Rakesh Kumar Oct. 2011

Couplets...

Corruption, Corruption, Corruption
Make it excuse for life disruption
There is no end and beginning
for what are we aiming

Poverty, Poverty, Poverty
How to make two end barely
Deprived of it all
Life of ours is just too small

Crime, Crime, Crime
In many form it will rhyme
Day or night every time
Whatever means you try

Trafic, Traffic, Traffic
Thinking about it makes me sick
Blame is to govt. or public
Only if they listen it to stick

(C) Rakesh Kumar Aug 2011

Remember Me When...

Remember me when

Life is not what it appears

No body is respecting one's tears

Remember me when

Your are unable to spent your life's years

Unable to share your inner feelings

And difficult things you are dealing

Remember me when

You have no other way of healing

Only you see in other's eye disdain

You are unable to count of gain

Remember me when

You have only got friendship with pain

World just seems a curse

Nothing left in your purse

Remember me when

Nothing exists for you to sing a verse

All of you dreams are broken

There is no name left to be spoken

Remember me when

As a helpless your are fallen

You have loss everything and beaten

Because I will still be there

At the extreme end

With a hand to extend

Your sorrow will be nothing

When you remember how I lived

(C) Rakesh Kumar Oct 2011

I was unhappy until

I was unhappy because I had no pen

Until I found a men without hand

I was un happy because  I had no shoes

Until I found a man with no feet

I was un happy because I had no dress

Until I a found a man with body bruises

I was un happy because I had no home

Until I found a man chained in jail

I was un happy because I had no wealth

Until I found a man with ill health

I was un happy because I had no book

Until I found a man  who could not read

(C) Rakesh Kumar Oct. 2011

To hell with...

To hell with world to hell with all
This is the living a life you call


Too many things we don’t have control
Just in moment a king is dethrone


How much we have progressed
And how much we have advanced


Unable to figure on which tune we dance
There are tears and there are sorrow


Still you don’t what is lying tomorrow
With all our achievement to boost our ego
And next moment life will force us to bow


You may be hero master giving millions to speech
The next moment nothing we know to teach


(C) Rakesh Kumar Oct. 2010

Our Nation...

A nation journey misplaced

Future wrongly placed

A nation destination

Far away without its honest citizen

A nation goal

Divided by religion as  whole

A nation interest is auctioned

Abandoned  and lying orphaned

A nation past

Forgotten by all of us fast

A nation present

Eaten by its citizen like rodent

A nation being

Politicians had ruined

A nation progress

Talking about it a disgrace

A nation development

In the hands of middle agent

A nation peace

Communalized  and ceased

A nation eyes

Had lost long back its sight

A nation power

A case of lost billion dollar

(C) Rakesh Kumar Sept 2011

I don't want to say a single word about this poem, I didn't have any intention to share it with any one initially.


How will I understand your strategy
In this tragedy
Will you come and explain?
That what have you gain
Are you there? I am asking you
Because we all have got no clue
Who have failed, you or us
Are we just a clown in your circus?
Families and friends have lost a innocent soul
No one is believing that he is gone and died
Living was his birth right
But now he is nowhere within our sight
Do you know how it felt collecting his dust
How difficult it is for everyone to adjust
A mother has lost her piece of heart
How will one make a new start
When some one's hopes depart
A father in grief, tears and silence 
Coping whole life for his son absence 
Never one should see this day in whole lifetime
When he is suppose to share story bedtime
If only you could just answer why
That now we all have to go on  cry
That he had to go...
Unless you explain why you wanna do so....


(C) Rakesh Kumar Sept. 2011

लोकपाल बिल...

दोनों ही भ्रष्टाचार के बात पर लड़ते हैं

सरकार संसद में बहस करती हैं  

और अन्ना रामलीला मैदान में अनसन करते हैं  

फैसले उम्मीद के उम्मीद से दोनों कुछ मीटिंग भी करते हैं 

कहाँ घूसखोरी नहीं है और कहाँ चोरी नहीं है 

भ्रष्टाचार का राज्य है और जनता की सीनाजोरी है 

कानून बना देना तो बहुत आसान है 

पर हम आम आदमी के ग़मों को भी तो देखिये 

भीड़ जुटा लेना कौन से बड़ी बात है 

ये अनसन का मेला है और लोग भीड़ में जुटते है

कुछ लोग इंटरनेट और फेसबुक पर भी बहस करते हैं  

अनसन के दिखावे में जाने लोग क्या क्या नहीं करते हैं...

एक बार अगर बिल संसद में पास भी हो जाये 

पर हम लोगों के दिल से मक्कारी कैसे भगाई जाये 

कुछ लोग अनसन के लिए घर से निकलते हैं... 

सरकार में पॉवर तो है पर उसमे जज्बा नहीं है    

अन्ना में जज्बा तो है उनमे पॉवर नहीं है  

सरकार के काम  काम का है न अन्ना के काम का 

बिल भी बन जाए तो भी इस देश में इमानदारी हराम का

एक बार तो सरकार बिल बना भी दे लेकिन 

उसके मंत्री न जेल जाये इस बात से डरती है... 

अन्ना और सरकार के मीटिंग मैं हर बार यही होता है 

कुछ नया तो कुछ पुराना न्यूज़ होता है 

और ये न्यूज़ चैनल वाले ऐसे बहस करते हैं जैसे 

न्यूज़ पेश करना कोई व्यापार हो जैसे 

और लोग अन्ना का ऐसे सपोर्ट करते है की 

खुद इमानदारी के मूरत हो जैसे...

एक बार तो बिल बन भी हो जाये लेकिन...

यूं तो हमारा भी मन भूख हड़ताल करने का होता है 

पर खाली पेट सोते हुए बहुत जयादा दर्द होता है

अनसन के वक़्त हर दिन दिन यही होता  है 

भ्रस्ताचार के विरोध मैं हर सख्स खड़ा होता है 

और क्या बताये की अनसन के दिन से क्या हाल हुआ है 

खाने के हर कौर को निगलते हुए हम डरते हैं

और पक गया है हमारा कान सुन के लोक पाल बिल के बारे मैं 

न और जिक्र कीजिए अब भ्रष्टाचार के बारे मैं  

और हम भी इस आन्दोलन से अब क्या उम्मीद रखें 

जो लोग अनसन में शामिल हैं हमे भी पता है उनकी नीयत के बारे मैं 

(c) Rakesh Kumar Aug 2011

आजकल घर की चीजें मुझे मिलती नहीं है अपनी जगह
मेरा किचन मेरा नहीं रहा अब,
चावल और दाल का डब्बा बदल चुका है
मसाले और नमक का डिब्बी अपनी जगह पर नहीं रहती
फ्रीज़ भी नया नया लगता है आजकल
कुछ साफ साफ लगता है घर का हर एक कोना
चादर का रंग बदल गया
खाने का स्वाद बदल गया है,
रोटियाँ मुलायम हो गयी है
नास्ता भी टेस्टी हो गया है
ऑफिस भी लंच बॉक्स ले जाने लगा हूँ
शाम को जल्दी घर पर आने लगा हूँ
ऑफिस देर तक रुकना बंद कर दिया है मैंने
शाम की चाय भी आजकल अच्छी लगती है अब
उसके साथ स्नैक भी मिलने लगा है
जूता और मोजा अपनी जगह पर मिलने लगा है
मेरी पुरानी टी शर्ट पोछे मैं कब की तब्दील हो चुकी है
कपडे भी इस्त्री किये होते हैं आजकल
बिस्तर के एक साइड से ही उतर पता हूँ मैं अब
और घर का दरवाजा भी मैं नहीं खोलता हूँ आजकल
मेरे कार की बगल वाली सीट अब खाली नहीं रहती है
हाँ अब कोई मेरे साथ भी अब चलने लगा है
एक हम सफ़र मिल गया है मुझे अब
शादी हो चुकी है मेरी अब....
(c) Rakesh Kumar

थोड़ी बकवास...

कौन खाली पेट भूखा सोता 

कौन कितना रोता 

किसको है ये सोचने की पड़ी 

सबको है अपने आप की पड़ी 

जुगाड़ लगा कर अपनी  गाडी आगे बढ़ी 

किसके पास है ये सोचने का टाइम 

हम जो करे वो सही है या  क्राइम 

न्यूज़ चैनल देख कर फर्सटेसन में दे गाली 

या लाफ्टर देख कर हँसे और बजाये ताली 

लड़की के बारे में मत सोच की वो गोरी है या काली 

ये देख की क्या वो है सच्चे दिल वाली

मेंम साब  सोचें बस  कैसी है उनके होठों की लाली 

क्या होता है अगर आडवानी PM हो या मनमोहन 

कोई नहीं लायेगा स्विस बैंक में पड़ा कला धन 

देश  की  चिंता  में  मत  खराब कर अपना मन 

इस  देश को चलते पी के नेता रम

क्या बताएं भैया क्यों अपनी जला रखी है 

कहाँ अपनी जली है और कहाँ सुलगा रखी है 

अब कहाँ बची है अपनी कोई साख 

आग में जल के अपनी इज्जत हो चुकी है राख 

इस देश का युवा खेले शेयर मार्केट का जुआ 

बॉस हो या बीवी बन जाये सामने पिद्दी चूहा 

बीवी ने दिया था खाने में हमको छोला 

साथ में बना था भरता एक बैगन का गोला

दिमाग था ख़राब इसलिए हमने इतना बकवास किया   

हम तो बस ये कहे जो हुआ सो अच्छा हुआ 

हम सब पर ऊपर वाले की भैया होती रहे हमेशा दुआ    

(C) Rakesh Kumar

Now a days...

Our words have lost the meaning

We have forgotten our being

Our path have lost the distance

Heart has lost its conscience

The fire has lost its warm

Beauty has lost its charm

The sun has lost its light

Our spirit has lost its fight

Night has lost its darkness

Our sleep has become dreamless

And ice has lost its coldness

Life has become aimless

Day has lost its brightness

Our eyes has become sparkles

Sea has lost its water

Life has nothing left to glitter

Wind has lost its gentle breeze and air

Our skin is no longer internally fair

Love has lost its care

We all have lost faith in our prayer

Sky has lost its cloud

We don't have someone to call loud

River has lost its flow

We have nothing left for an ego

Earth has lost its rotation

Only wounds have been more deepen

And we are bruised and fallen...

(C) Rakesh Kumar Aug 2011

No One Else But...

No one else but you build your fate

By putting your price and rate

No one else but you build your character

The act and role you play as actor

No one else but you build your life

Fighting odds with  courage and knife

No one else but you build your happiness

By brushes you hit on your mind canvass

No one else but you build your strength

By crossing difficult hills and far length

No one else but you kill you fears

By killing the negative voices in your ears

No one else but you build your dream

By challenging your abilities and reaching new extreme

No on else but you build you family

By sharing each other love and affection daily

No one else but you make yourself duffer

By ignoring one's & considering other opinion bigger

No one else but you build your country

By standing & fighting together with one's enemy

(C) Rakesh Kumar July 2011

Impressions...

My wife's impressions...

D - Deepness of your voice

E - Each and every day I crave

E - Energy and your everlasting your smile

P - Pure and devine your soul

T - Touching my heart deeply

I - I love you always

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D - Delightful

E - Eager for your glance

E - Every moment smiling

P - Picture of you, always in my mind

T - Truly lovable

I - Indeed you are only one for me

Leopard and Human..

This poem I wrote after seeing a news of Leopard killing when it entered in a village for food and villagers killed him. This poem represent conversation between that dying leopard and humans.

I also have right to be conserve

What did I do to deserve

You human are uncivilized and greedy

And you got character mean and petty

You have taken away my everything

And more you get, more you are asking

Even you don't have a small place to give

Everyone here got equal right to live

For you killing is just a means of thrill

I need answer why I should be killed

Only I forget that my home is now manned

I strayed just couple of yards in your land

I was a hungry fool searching for food

Where should I go if not left with any jungle wood

It was my misfortune that no where I could run

You all came out running with stick and gun

Surrounded by men I was just a helpless clown

You all chased and hunted me down

Many my friends are already extinct

But you never care even to wink

I have also right for my bite on earth

Others living also have life of worth

You human please leave us alone

I happy in my forest that I used to own

Though you are living in city

But I have only got you pity

In race of growth you destroyed nature

No one understand what are you after

Where is end of this race and greed

Human growth race is blind and mislead

My end is near but yours is also not very far

I am wild but how much civilized you are

Today I am dying but laughing on your fate

Your end is near how big weapon you create

(C) Rakesh Kumar May 2011

Life goes on...

Only couple of days left
Before if leave this place
Move myself to a unknown base

Cleaning my memories of album
Last couple of weeks I felt numb
Under influence of an old rum
Trying to accept what has come

Its has been more than 3 years
I had many occasions to cheers
Many those whom I can call dear
Some time they were not what they appear

I loved this place and people
As its atmosphere was casual
It suited to my working style
But now we are all into exile

Now I feel detached to this place
I don't even know why
Today when I look around
There is nothing to call mine

Lets appreciate what we have got
Why to think about good and wrong
Be grateful how you have come along
Life goes on and life goes on

Before I say goodbye I must admit
I really enjoyed every bit of it
Again there will be new people and face
I will be running a completely new race

(C) Rakesh Kumar Apr 2011.

A New Goal..

Lets make a goal and aim it to score
Something that has never been set before
Like touching the high blue sky
Or devise a theory that has never been applied
It may also be reaching to a shining star
Or building a dream home at Mars
Why not aim covering  a distance very far
What makes us afraid of scars
Stop showing a behaviour childish
As only we go far as high as we wish
Do something which we cherish
Before our life gets finish..
Forget what other have to say
About many difficulties we will face on the way
Many people telling not to begin
Giving explanation that we will never win
Don't let their opinion to make us clown
And bring our self down
The biggest threat comes only from inside
When we let our spirit to die
Fight it out true to our heart
Now is the time to make a fresh start


(c) Rakesh Kumar Apr 2010

Long time  i have not written anything may be i was busy with may daily routine. most of time busy with personal and stuff and some personal too. finally i got  married and it feels great.. it feels great to be with a great person.. so initial couple of month went talking, on phone mostly and preparing for marriage and last and then in actual marriage honey moon etc. after i was back my boss told me abt development in professional front so i was busy settling those stuff got bit settle and would be starting a chapter in professional life next month meanwhile i am enjoying my time with Deepti a kind of extended honey moon....

To my wife....

After many years of drought I finally got rain
And what precious gift I have gained
God became kind and an angel he threw
Precious was the moment when I met you
You have got heart of gold
With your behaviour everyone around is bowled
You got caring and sweet nature
God now don't create a person more better
By marrying you I am truly blessed
You are exactly the way i needed
With your presence everyone is deeply touched
Can't describe how much I feel loved
You made my life so beautiful
We have become such a lovely couple
New meaning to my life you gave
With words on my heart you engraved
The way you look at me I can't tell
You give me strength whenever I fell
Being with you bring fulfillment to my life
Words are little what I write about you my wife
This poem is incomplete without words I have to say
That I love you dear every moment and every day...

(C) Rakesh Kumar Mar 2011

One More Try...

This poem I wrote to encourage all my colleagues who are dealing with some difficult time....


Nobody will know ever fully
And nobody will agree
How much you try to explain
What future for you contain
That you are sad and stressed
And how deeply you are depressed
If you feel like scream, scream
Its normal when you are not part of some one's scheme
Cry if you feel your eyes are dry
Its not only with you
Everyone has seen and gone through
Don't cut yourself and let blood flow
Use this moment to let yourself know
That how much you have grown
May be now life seem all messed
See all are smiling, beautifully dressed
Just it need your attention to shift
You too have got this wonderful gift
Called life...
And at home waits your beautiful wife
Life journey will not always be fair
But there are people who deeply care
Lift your face and looked into their eyes
Stand on your feet and give it one more try....
Don't think that you are done
Best things in your life are still waiting to come..


(C) Rakesh Kumar March 2011

To my office...

This poem I wrote for my office on recent developments where I spent some best moments of my professional life.

 

After all those years with you I spent

This way our end was not suppose to meant
Many late night sitting alone
Staying away from loved one and home
Those nights when you were left deserted
Staying with you alone i was not afraid
Early morning when you were silent
I sacrificed my sleep so pleasant
Moments we spent together
When things looked so better
Journey full of excitement and fun
Never thought so early this day would come
Remember those stress, tension and worries
Argument when no one seemed to agree
Going ahead challenges we found new
And the emotion we went through

While days and years went by
So many friends already said goodbye
Many times when i was tempted to leave
Thinking how it would be perceived
Now no one understand how I felt
When our separation of words spelt
That you would not be part of my life anymore
Being with you so much I adored
Feeling helpless hearing from someone
And so weak that I cant take even any action
Does any one cares how bad I feel abandoned
Without my wish life has been auctioned
This is not what I expected
The way I am looked  doubted
I never felt being so useless
Affected by many decision baseless
Lying numb I feel paralyzed
No courtesy and I don't want be advised
Though I loved and enjoyed working with you
But now its time to say final adieu

 

(C) Rakesh Kumar Mar 2010.

Dreams in my eyes...

Dreams in my eyes and mud in my shoes
I am fighting without care what I have to lose
People around me are only to abuse
To create doubts and fuel reasons to argue
Battered and broken, bruised body is aching
These pains are only just for faking
I don't care and keep on walking...

(C) Rakesh Kumar feb 2011.

Where art thou...

My dear where will you meet
Hit by a car on the crowded street
Or in tsunami wave on a lonely seashore
From a apartment floor when i fall
Or in the playground hit by a cricket ball
May be in a bomb blast in crowded mall
Or crushed as a insect somewhere while I crawl
May be now you don't come to such places
As these are happening since million ages
Meeting on these places will not be sweet
Tell me, where are you find mostly these days
I want my meeting with you exciting and complete
As only once I want to taste your bliss
I don't want to meet you on a regular place
Request you to consider my simple urge
Come only when I feel reach far above
When I am lying in the arms of my love
And I am giving her a kiss
Nothing more left for me then to wish
Only that moment I want you to come
Meet me and give me freedom
Death' only then I want to embrace you
And call my life adieu............

(C) Rakesh Kumar Feb. 2011

Its not me

There is no me any more
The me is shaken, The me is doubetd
The me is confused, the me is frighted
Why becuase I doubted for momnet
Only a moment when trust was absent
And them my mind took me control
Peace and love was all what he stole
No one will notice ever
But I label myself as broker
As long there it remain
I will be tied in the misery chain
It hurted me and I am still feeling sore
Unless it heels, there will not be me any more

(C)Rakesh Kumar Feb 2011

Your smile is highest high
I forget all my cry

Your voice is so deep
I forget years of weep

Your touch is so sensual
It gives my life fuel

Your look is so innocent
I experience divine moment

Your love has no measure
I consider it precious treasure

Your laugh stops time
I cant compare that rhyme

(C) Rakesh kumar Jan 2010

While I Slept

While I slept
The whole country wept

Television was on and news channel was running on
Showing many important event that were gone

News about many new cases of corruption
Debate on why there was no action

How many farmers committed suicide
Why victims compensation had been denied

Possibilities of drought had deepen
And talk about increase in inflation

Prices of vegetables were touching sky
There were tears in so many eyes

In remote village lovers were killed
On corruption charges ministers were grilled

There were concern on tiger numbers
And how minister had grabbed land acres

Amount of money stored in Swiss bank
Why India was unable to build weapon and tank

There were news and day's horoscope
And advertisement of a beauty soap

All were news and important talk
I turned my head to look at clock

It was just only two past midnight
I was wondering if world was alright

In couple of hours how much I aged
In news end of the world predicted

In the evening things were great
Even earth had kept its rotate
Though reporters were questioning its fate

I was terrified and ashamed
But no one was there to be blamed

So many things and I peacefully slumbered
Just in couple of hours my soul was murdered

Now things were not meant to accept
I was regretting why I had slept


(C) Rakesh Kumar Jan 2011

A month to go...

Its exactly one month to go for my marriage. It feels so exciting and great. Can't wait any longer to be with her. I don't know how she has touched my life so deeply in such a short span of time and how last two month has passed. Most of my preparation is well on track.

15 days of...

This is how I look after 15 days without no shave and then after shave.

Life as Today

Lets examine how things in life arranged
How our life has progressed and changed

How much are we busy running life race
We don't have time to meet face to face

When was last time when we stopped and had a look
Though we spent daily our time on facebook

We don't have any time to share with  parent
Though we tweet about ourselves every moment

Many hours we spent time on mobile phone
Though at the end of day we are left  alone

We are scared and fighting to survive
Our life runs only on gadgets and device

This is so called our definition of being social
Sitting with some friends we open whisky bottle

Now we don't heed what mother tells
Only we give her occasional yell

We are confused with culture and tradition
We don't care how much our value system is broken

To cover long distance we have a car
But from our inner self we are very far

For others we don't have love and affection
Gadgets and materialistic stuff only gets our attraction

How we have destroyed our lovely nature
We are the most wildest creature

Though our living years has become long
But can we call ourselves as being strong

On our manners we never put any effort
But we have lot to spent on fancy dress and T-Shirt

We don't know now beauty of Sun and Sky
Television serials we have to feed our eye

When was the last we spoke sweet words
We don't remember early morning chirping of birds

We are only ourselves to cheat
This is the way our life gets daily treat

We have progressed and covered so much distance
But we have not been able to reach our self conscience

(C) Rakesh Kumar Jan. 2011