Zindgi aadat hai...
iss 'aadat' ke aadi
hum insaan.
aapati jaati saason ka yeh karwaan
kidhar se chala? kahan ruka?
kise pata? kisne dekha?
kab se hai yeh lahoo daudti
machalti choti badi nason mein
kise pata? kisne parkha?
saikron shaklein, chalta phirta sharara
zindgi ke aayine mein
kabhi der tak lekin...
ek nahi thahra
har lamha gale se utarkar
labhzon mein dhalti
khayyalon ke bahon mein
bahein daale, ithlati........
girti, uthkar chalti
in pairon se yeh zindgai...
kabse hai yeh chala kafila?
kidhar gaya? kahan ruka?
kaun bataye? kisne dekha?
phoonk phoonk kar har ek kadam jo
uthe woh akhri hichki tak
har lamha par yeh sach jhuthlati
khel yeh lekin akhir kab tak?
kisne socha? kisne parkha?
sawalon ki yeh pontli peeche chorta
har lamha jeeye jata.....seeye jata
'iss aadat' ke aadi
hum insaan......
zindgi bhi kaisi aadat hai !!
Nice poem. I would like to do an analysis of what is going on here. You let me know if you concur with me on this.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, the reason you write poems -> Happiness and fulfillment. Writing poems give you the kind of satisfaction and outlet that you want to hold on to. We all look for means to express our creativity in various ways. This is your creativity speaking. The pleasure you gain from creativity is greater that other basic sense pleasures like eating good food.
Secondly why you picked up this topic -> The reason is curiosity combined with an urge to be free of the monotony of life. Curiosity is inherent in all of us, and in this case you are curious about the process of life and want an explanation for the boredom and monotony your mind is eager to know if there is anything unlimited, beyond the confines of the body and mind and you are expressing it through your poem.
Question is why do we feel bound? According to me, that happens because we want to break free and at the same time is afraid to do so because we do not want to lose what we call as our entity. So fear and insecurity pulls us back and we form a pattern in our lives to be safe. Out of this conflict has come out your poem where your mind tries to make a sense of this conflict.
If you observe, writing poems also gives you a sense of freedom, but if you write poems for too long you might feel insecure and want to move back to your regular life to maintain status quo. This is the irony of life according to me.
I absolutely concur with you Dipto; needless I say any sort of creativity gives you satisfaction unbound. The sort of satisfaction beyond any senses of pleasure. I concur with you again until the concluding phrases you made that eternal creativity might draw you back to your 'status quo'; contrary to this - I might go on spreading my imaginative wings bigger and bigger and fly into the blue infinite and go into oblivion...however, who knows I might be pulled back onto the ground and stripped of my imaginations. Hope I could ever give it a try, again time would not allow me; more than time 'entity' would not allow me, as you aptly mentioned!
ReplyDeleteSudipta I did not mean creativity draws you down, creativity can never draw you down. I meant that your fear of losing your entity will draw you down. Like you said in the end of your comment, 'again time will not allow me'. Thats what I meant.
ReplyDeleteRobert Frost's poem
The woods are lonely dark and deep but I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep