Familiar

Learn the ways of society
And your social obligations
Towards your family
Towards your blood relations

Growing up as they say
Was always their way

To their degree
You must agree
To their relations
You must relate

Resting their hopes and ambitions
Kingdom, kings and their creations
Unless the clan's common requiem
Hunted, shot down an individual dream

He never said no, always yes
For his own, himself he cared less

Raised by families, two
Dilemma was not new
Did he belong to either?
He longed for niether

All he wanted was to belong
He walked along
Till he felt it was wrong

He defied tradition
To promote reason
He questioned reason
To define faith

Dear ones let him choose
Nature let him abuse
Till he realised its no use
Its now he better choose

He found in society's wrath
His right, his only right path

Family was not his parents
Not the family he was raised by
Not the familiar he swore by

He was the cause, he was the effect
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Majboor

Silsilein nahi hain in gustakhion mein

Yeh to nazar ka taqaaza hain
Husn ko saraahana in ka dastoor hain
Kya karoon yeh aankhe majboor hain

Na lihaaz kiya mauke ki nazakat ka
Na gaur kiya us shaffaq badan ko
Kho gaye un aankhon mein
Jis mein inhone jahan dekha

Shayad main ne nafrat dekhi
Shayad mein ne bebasi dekhi
Shayad mein ne jhijhak dekhi
Shayad mein ne be inteha mohabbat dekhi

Kya mein ne zulm dekhe?
Kya mein zaroorat dekhi?
Kya mein ne jhoote waden dekhe?
Ya in mein masoomiyat dekhi?

Kyon in mein aapni chahat talash ta hoon
Kyon inhein mein apna wajood talsha ta hoon

Bezubaan ye nahi
Ghazal inhi se hain
Aashiqui hi nahi
Dewaangi bhi in se hain

Nigahen milte hi waqt tham sa jata hai
Palak jhapakte hi waqt badal jata hai
Khwahishen badhti jati hain
Aashquon ne khushiyan barsaayee hain

Soormai ki tarah in mein din dhal jata hai
In mein hi kal ka ek khawab sajta hai

Zamane ne ki inki shikayat
Badnam ki yeh shaqsiyat


Jin nigahon pe fida hongi meri nazarein
Wahi kalam hongi meri mohabbatein

Tab tak majboor hain talash main

Nadan hain yeh nazarein
Dil ki zuban hain yeh nazarein


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Manzil

Raaste bahut they manzil ki aur,
Faasalen badh gaye samjothe ka tha daur

Khwaishon ke darmiyan zaroorat ke aashiyaane hai,
Bas noor kar de woh benazir in maikhano ko

Aaine mein yeh rooh aaj bhi paak hai
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