Khwaaish-e-Mann: March 2009

Monday, March 30

March ... towards the Sunset...

Inspired by the beauty of a sunset captured by a friend ...

I write this as an ode to a brief but beautiful, special friendship ...

Sunsets !!

Beautiful...

... yet Mysterious...

Every moment in the day... as life holds its own beauty...

...each with their own beauty and agony...

"Dawn" is a moment of awakening, "Noon" a period of realization,

"Dusk" a time of appreciation...

Everyday as it begins... brings with it an element of hope just as a relationship... the harbinger of happiness, positivity... love, understanding ... a blossoming friendship...

The day moves on...

... the heat, the trials and tribulations of life...

...somewhere the importance and beauty of a glorious beginning ...

...is lost on the way ...

... a beautiful, flourishing relationship begins to wilt...

Thoughts... Afternoons and early evenings... leading towards a feeling of achievement, accomplishment ... windingup... a contemplation of the ups, downs ... a realisation of the beauty of the day that was... a flower... withered away... ... lost in time and its momentary glory... ... moving towards the sunset...

Dusk... Twilight... Sunsets ...

...mark a move towards the end...

A consolidation ...a meeting and mingling of the restless...

...a feeling of solitude, gratitude, happiness, wishfulness...

...a myriad of emotions...

...but it still revels in the beauty of bringing all... HOME ...

... together where they belong!!

Twilight slowly slips into a reddish darkness.... ...signifying the end... what remains thereafter is the mystery of what is due to begin ... ... the mystery of a new tomorrow, a new beginning, a new transaction, a new relationship... ...planting the seeds of HOPE...

Is it the end or a "new" beginning?

HOPE this dusk brings in a better dawn...
As March moves towards the end...
…leaving tread marks for April to follow
...transcending from one into another...

Wishing for the eternal...

...Knowing all the way...
...that nothing lasts Forever!!

Saturday, March 21

..... ख्वाबों की तस्वीर - एक पहल! .....

A tiny speck of cells... a life, a hope, an initiative... an individual

नज़रों से हमने अपनी...

एक नाज़ुक सा ख्वाब सजाया था...
अपने ख्यालों सा ही ...

अपना एक छोटा सा अंश पाया था ...

"Motherhood" people say, makes a woman complete... it makes her more than complete... its starts a whole new life... with a whole new perspective... A tiny life... that changes the world for you... the way you perceive the world and the way the world looks at you...

My baby was born not on the day he came into the world but on the day he made himself 'at home' within me... every day he has grown as a part of me ... with me ... since that day in January 2001... The fear... the appehension... the pain... the curiosity... all seemed to vanish... when a screaming little bundle was placed in my arms... overtaken by love... and tenderness on October 16, 2001!

तुम्हारी निगाहों की इस चमक से ही है...

रोशन यह दुनिया हमारी...

Watching him grow...

.... whether it was on the radiologist's computer screen... feeling him swim within me or boxing around... or just getting him to respond with a "Good Morning, Baby"... never ever felt different from now...

... watching a live performance... feeling his embrace... watching TV... fighting with him or scolding him... just having a simple a conversation with him... waking him up every morning with a "Good Morning, Baby" still holds its charm... the only difference...

I can hug, squeeze and kiss him till he wakes up!!

It never ceases to amaze me that such a simple biological phenomenon could be such an enriching and fulfiling experience... despite the intricacies of nature and its hand in evolving some tiny cells into a thinking and independent individual...

Every time I see woman giving birth it never fails to take me back into time... when I first set my eyes on this tiny, "iglly piglly" squirming little cute baby banging on the glass walls of the incubator, rudely awakened and forced out of his comfortable, cozy abode with in me ...

ख्वाबों की तस्वीर ... एक पहल...

Thursday, March 19

Only Time...

Who can say where the road goes,

Where the day flows, only time?

And who can say if your love grows,

As your heart chose, only time?

Who can say why your heart sighs

As your love flies, only time?

And who can say why your heart cries

when your love lies, only time?

Who can say when the roads meet,

That love might be, in your heart?

And who can say when the day sleeps,

"IF" the night keeps all your heart?

Night keeps all your heart.....

Who can say if your love grows,

As your heart chose, only time?

And who can say where the road goes

Where the day flows, only time?

Who knows? Only time...

Monday, March 16

REASON, SEASON, OR A LIFETIME...

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person...

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a needyou have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you withguidance and support,
To aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to anend.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desirefulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

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Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn hascome to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.
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LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons,
things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotionalfoundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson,
love the person and put what you have learned to use in all otherrelationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Thank you for being a part of my life,
whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.....