My Shadow

My companion since childhood,

by me she has always stood.

I walk with a straight posture,

always sleeping is its behavior.

Her aim is to try and defeat me,

to reach every place before me.

Though she knows she is tied to me,

but she searches for her own identity.

Maybe hassled with my habits,

She looks for a place new to inhabit.

Compared to my life which is scattered,

The life of others seems uncluttered.

I wish it could have been possible,

to set her free for her searchable.

I would have lived my life alone,

And she would have lived her own.

A shadow is a shadow,

God’s rules it has to follow.

We are tied together presently,

The time for freedom is not yet to be.

When that time comes,

The day of reckoning will come.

Freedom from each other to achieve,

And resolve go our separate ways I believe.

renukakkar 17.01.2011

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Invisible friend

Together into this world we came,
we lost each other in life's game.

As children we played together,
life's problems broke our pair forever.

I was a good invisible friend,
for a visible person indeed a best friend.

Days of our childhood we lost somewhere,
we, dear friends,got separated from each other.

Time does not take long to come back again,
Full circle and we face memories of childhood again.

Layer of negativeness is removed and realization drawn,
but for some this stage comes when time is extremely gone.

Very few people meet their souls face to face,
if only we'd listened and cared for our inner self.
renukakkar 4.1.2011
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A shattered Dream

It is hard for me to believe,
that you are about to leave.
We were meant to be together,
they all said made for each other.

You have found another,
my love for you is now a bother.
My heart is breaking,
my dream of a future is ending.

Was there something in me that was at fault ?
or the promises made by you were fraud?
Love is suppose to last eternally,
but for you it seems to be momentary.

I will let you go away anyway,
It is not that I would like you to stay.
It is not for me to hold you against your will,
binding you to me with promises.

Tell me now,how do I live without you?
as you have been my life for a few years too.
I had been dreaming of a future with you,
the center stage to be occupied by you.

I can not blame you for anything you see,
as around you I had built my world to be.
You are free to go where your heart takes you,
your happiness lies with the likes of you.

It is good that you have shown to me,
and identified the inner self that makes you be.
Had this happened if we were man and wife,
it would have been akin to a wound being tampered with a knife.
renukakkar
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अदृश्य दोस्त

हम दोनों तो आए थे साथ साथ दुनिया में,
हमारा साथ कही छूट गया जिन्दगी की दौड़ में.

साथ साथ खेले थे हम दोनों बचपन में,
तोड़ा साथ हमारा जिन्दगी के झमेले ने.

एक अच्छा अदृश्य दोस्त था मैं,
दृश्य व्यक्ति का पक्का साथी था मैं.

खो गए वो दिन बचपन के हमारे,
एक दूसरे से अलग हो गए हम दोस्त प्यारे.

समय गुज़रते देर नहीं लगाती है,
परिक्रमा पूरी होते ही समय पलटता है.

जमी हुई कालक की परत एक दिन हटती है,
परन्तु कुछ लोगों के लिए यह समय बहुत देर करता है.

कुछ लोग रु ब रु होते हैं अपनी आत्मा से,
काश हम रखते उस बचपन के दोस्त को ध्यान से.
renukakkar 4.2.2011
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परछाई

साथी है बचपन से मेरी,
साथ मेरे हमेशा रहती.
मैं चलती हूँ सीधे हो कर,
वह चलती है हमेशा सो का.

कोशिश है उसकी मुझे हराना,
मेरे पहले खुद को पहुंचना.
बंधी हुई है मुझ से वह यह जानती ,
अपनी नई पहचान को ढूँढ़ती

शायद परेशान मेरी आदतों से,
अपने लिए ढूँढ़ती है कोई ठिकाने से.
मेरी अलग थलग जिन्दगी सी,
औरों की जिन्दगी लगे उसे सम्बIली सी.

काश ऐसा हो पता कभी,
उसे मैं जाने देती तभी.
अपनी जिन्दगी खुद जी लेती,
वह भी और मैं भी.

परछाई तो परछाई है,
अलग ज़ीने का दस्तूर नहीं.
हम दोनों को बंदे रहना है अभी,
रिहाई का समय अभी आया नहीं.

जब वों समय आ जाएगा,
तब रिहाई का दिन हो जाएगा.
एक दूसरे से मुक्त होंगे हम,
जाएगी अपने अपने रास्ते हम.
renukakkar 16.1.2011
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जिन्दगी के पन्ने

जिन्दगी  के पन्ने पलटते ही सोचते हैं,
पलट जाए जिन्दगी तो क्या बात है.

गुज़रा समय आता कभी नहीं,
लौट आए कभी तो क्या बात है.

फिर से जी लेंगे अपनी जिन्दगी,
चहका करेंगे फिर से तो क्या बात है.

 गलतियों को सुधार लेंगे हम भी,

अच्छा समय मिल जाए तो क्या बात है.

ख़्वाबों में मिलने वाले हैं जो कोई,
हकीकत में फिर से मिल जाए तो क्या बात  है.

जो हमारे हैं, वह हमारे पास ही हैं,
दिल से बाहर आ जाए तो क्या बात है.

जो चले गए, वह हमारे पास नहीं हैं,
उन्हें सोचने से बात कोई बनती  नहीं है.

ख्वाब तो ख्वाब होते ही हैं,
हकीकत बन जाए तो क्या बात है.
रेनू कक्कर  24.01.2011
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Caring friends

Snow White was banished to the forest,
her stepmother envied her beauty and health robust.
Told never to return to the palace,
she was asked to make her home in the wilderness.

Found she 7 dwarfs whom she befriended,
so loving and caring were these little defenders.
She in turn kept their cottage neat and clean,
like a sister looks after her sibling clan.

After many years her stepmother found her
and used poison in comb and an apple to kill her.
Her defenders removed the comb from her hair,
but from the throat, they could not dare.

put in a glass casket she looked sleeping,
her friends her defenders stood always guarding.
Lifting of the casket by the prince awoke her,
her friends let her go realized her happiness was before her.

We should also be like Snow White and her friends,
helping and caring for each other without thinking of gains.
In letting friends go their way lies our happiness,
restricting and clipping wings is making them flightless.
renukakkar
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