Friday, November 1, 2013

He, Melancholy and Them !!!

He did not want to go, to them;
He never expected them to return;
And in return; he decided to stay;
   to stay away from them,
   to leave it all behind ;
to Them.

No-one asked him, "when would you go back, to Them???" ;
No-one expected him to come back, either.
Yet he was staying, where he wanted,
   right on the wrong of their opinion.
He was leaving a tradition, of staying in a claustrophobic sky.

A sky filled with people like him,
   trying very hard to swim across The Ocean.
Trying equally hard to avoid each other;
While wishing that, others,
   whom they avoided would never come back;
And wearing a facade of loving them, caring for them, respecting them;
Back-stabbing them the whole time.

A sky working on ticktock,
A sky valued by plastics,
A sky run by smoke,
A sky worn out by building too much on it,
A sky filled with infinite stars, real and unreal;
A sky he remembers through memories,
   of her, of him;
A sky which he loves yet loathes the idea of loving it.
A sky he never wanted to be a part of, after meeting them

He will never go, there lies a trap; he believes;
So, he came back, from where others went away;
And chose, what others left behind, asking for what he left.

But irony of him and Them,
   well played by the growing distance between them;
was creating a close proximity,
   to defeat his purpose of running away.
He was not the chosen one, he was just another victim.
A victim of Them.
All of Them, victims of themselves.

An axis shifting, creating many worlds and as many parallel universes;
He is steadfast, at his position.
Watching the world around him, go in a tizzy.
Blurred vision gives way to fall.
And he is simply turned into nothing.
Making him forget all the love, loss, hunger, grief, greed, laughter, lust, Life and others.
And letting them win, one more time.

He never wanted to go, to them.
So, he did not.
But, they found him.
At a place, which he never wanted Them to find;
At a time, when he had no one to talk to;
But, they found him nonetheless.
So, he talked to himself.
And never talked to anyone;
Heading to Tomorrowland,
   for Forever.

Monday, October 21, 2013

Umberella.....

A pre-determmned void, soon to go under hammer;
A blank page pouring countless words, and an equally blind man who can read it;
All decided, millions of years ago;
Let the gates of paradise welcome you...........        

A mind broken, kept even;
Under the veil of future,
that mind can not be allowed to roam.
Though meandering all he does,
mind driving him sane.
A wish he wishes to come alive,
out of the shells of dreams,
he walks with them, side by side.

Too afraid to leave the umbrella of the known,
I see him waiting, chatting with the gatekeeper.
He shall not move, he promised;
Yet breaking every promise he made.
Even to the gatekeeper of not having hopes to go through.

Without him noticing, the umbrella disappears,
leaving him with them;
just like him.
But he is different, boy. He indeed is.
Because he never wanted to live in the shadows,
of umbrella.

They will say,
"He is just justifying his own failure, of not being able to keep the safe heaven intact."
To them, he says, I hear;
"Unless I break the spell of my own shadow living in fear;
   fear of rain to lash me,
   fear of fog to disappear him,
   fear of sun to burn me &
   fear of my own self, to never leave me;
I will not shine."
He says this much and becomes mortal.
Only to resurface in the rings of heaven and hell.

Nobody can predict any future,
but they can certainly rewrite it.
I asked him how he will do it and he made me write this.
  maybe, he'll shambolically fail.
  maybe, he'll never shine.
  maybe,he'll never have the name again.
  maybe, he'll always regret his decisions and whine.
But when the dust settles over and sand has blown you away;
You'll always find him there.
Asking you to help yourself.

So, as the curtains come crashing down,
And after The Machine is done spitting you out,
do not ask for an umbrella.
Rather,run away from it.
Run farther, so it never reaches you.
And thus, you can be alive.
Even though you are burning, freezing and dying.
Never, ever; ask for that Umbrella......

Thursday, March 21, 2013

प्रतीकात्मक प्रेमाचा मदिरामय खेळ !!!!

दिवस कसे सरत गेले,तुझ्या आठवणीत झुरत गेले….
मग तोल सावरताना जरासा,न जाणे किती रिते झाले पेले….. ॥


सख्य तुझे हवे म्हणून कधी पेल दूर ढकलला होता,
तुझ्या विरहाच्या नादातच आता मी त्यांना आपलेसे केले...
आज पेल्यात तू दिसलीस....मादक अशी काचेतून हसलीस....
क्षणिक आनंद तू मिळाल्याचा म्हणून एक वेळी अनेक पेले भरले.....
आणि ते सारे रिकामे केले.......  ॥ १ ॥


पेले जाहले रिकामे पण तू अजूनही लांब का???
प्रेमाचा वर्षाव तुझ्यापरी होता होता पेल्यांना लगाम का????
तू अणि मदिरा,यातलं अंतर आता संपलय…
महाग आणि विषारी असं सुंदर combination ते बनलंय….
पण तुझी साथ अशी सहजी थोडी सुटणार???
आज पेल्यातच शुद्धीबरोबर तुझी पण आठवण बुडणार…
म्हणूनच ते सारे पेले केले रिकामे…
आणि लिहीत गेलो तुझ्या नावाचे पोवाडे,हे असे !!!!   ॥ २ ॥


शुद्धीत मग येताना आधार पुन्हा रित्या पेल्यांचा…
चढलेली 'तुझी' नशा उतरवायला 'उतारा' भिजलेल्या आसवांचा…
तुझ्या आठवणीत रमताना पुन्हा उधळेल माझा शब्द-वारू…. 
संपताना जग डोळ्यात माझ्या उरेल फक्त,




तुझ्यातला मी आणि माझ्यातली दारू…………   ॥ ३ ॥


- प्रथमेश कसालकर आणि madman



Monday, March 18, 2013

'दुसरी बाजू'


दुसर्‍या बाजूने जग किती वेगळं दिसतं,याची जाणीव अचानक का व्हावी???
"त्या जगाची पण सफर एकदा झालीच पाहिजे",अशी भावना मनी का न यावी???

वर्गात back-benchers रोज आम्ही,मस्ती आमची अमाप....
आठवडयातून एकदा बाहेर न काढल्यास,Prof नाच त्याचा ताप….
कधीतरी 'शहाण्या' मुलासारखं स्वतःहून का पहिल्या benchवर आम्ही नाही बसत???
का back-benchersच्या जोकवर आम्ही 'तिकडे' बसून नाही हसत??  ॥१॥

रोज comments पास करतो,हसतो,खिदळतो….
अभ्यास करायचा तेवढा राहून जातो….
वर्गातल्या 'हुश्शार' पोरांना पाहून हेवा वाटत नसला तरी त्यांच्यासारखं लक्ष दयावं असं कधी का वाटत नाही????
वाटलंच तर पुलाखालून एवढा 'अभ्यास' वाहून गेल्यासारखी आम्ही शहाणे का होत नाही???? ॥२॥

बाहेर काढलं जाण्याचा कंटाळा येतो कधी,
तरीही बंडखोर म्हणून Department मधे 'Famous' करण्यात येतं….
तो Tag सांभाळण्याची इच्छा नसली तरी आपोआप सगळं जुळून का येतं???
चूक नसताना वर्गाच्या बाहेर आम्हालाच का काढला जातं????  ॥३॥

'वर्गात पहिलं यावं' ही ईर्षा नाही मनात,
पण 'All-Clear' असावं अशी 'स्वप्नं' नेहमीच आम्ही बाळगतो....
स्वप्नांना सत्यात उतरवतानाचे प्रयत्न नेहमी Exam च्या वेळीच का कमी पडतात???
षंढासारखे हसत Result बघताना,पुन्हा पुन्हा KT पापर देताना आमची आम्हाला लाज का नाही वाटत??? ॥४॥

अशी जाणीव झाली यात धन्यता मानतात काही,
ही जाणीव झालेल्यांना वाळीत टाकण्यात काहीजण नाही करत कुचराई….
'शहाणं' होण्याची किंमत आम्ही इच्छा नसताना का चुकवायची???
दुसऱ्या बाजूने जग बघण्याची इच्छा मनात कधीपर्यंत मारत राहायची???  ॥५॥

- madman