Some Poems By Rajan Khosa
BOUNCE OF YOUR HAIR
The bounce of your hair
The colour of your lips
The swirl of your skirt
I have seen it all.
Tell me…
When did we become?
From lovers to friends?
As I moved away
You did not complain
When you took a flight
I stopped at my door.
Tell me…
When did we become?
From lovers to friends?
All my wishes
Each petal you picked
Each dewdrop you kissed
Each blade of grass you awakened
Nothing you left undone
Tell me my friend
When did we become?
From lovers to friends?
Are there roads that go nowhere?
Are there cars without wheels?
Are there birds without wings?
Are there?
GOD ASKS MAN
How things ripen in you
how do you know?
You listen
Not to your heart
Only to your reason
How things ripen in you
how do you know?
O my darling
You faithless one.
Years pass away
under your gaze.
All you judge
Is what’s not done.
Each encounter
Your pride rises to protect
O my darling
You faithless one.
GOD ASSURES MAN
I am your destiny
I am your fear
I have unleashed
A hundred million angels
Just look at the sky
In your praise they wing
O my darling
you faithless one
I sent you rich
I sent you poor
Why you turn to tears
Reality
A deck of mirrors
Why not leap in joy?
O my darling
you faithless one
How things ripen in you
how do you know?
You listen
Not to your heart
Only to your reason
How things ripen in you
how do you know?
O my darling
You faithless one.
GOD KNOCKS AT YOUR DOOR
You build walls of hatred and anger
You feed it with pride and guilt
Tell me my friend
Have you not heard Me
Knocking at your door
Every encounter you wish to win
Family, friend or foe, you are always right
Hear Me, hear Me
Hear the good sense
Knocking at your door
You make promises
White Red and Blue
How will you keep them?
When you break the ones with yourself?
Tell me my friend
When you come
How will I hear you
Knocking at My door?
GOD TALKS
How much money will you make?
For what my friend?
All you need is
Some dal and rice
All you need is
A cover from the rain
When emptiness shall cut your heart.
When deserts will scream.
You shall run to Me.
To the fountains of fresh waters flowing incessantly
In its depth you shall swim
And I will smile.
TRUST
Trust, that is what I wish to taste
Trust, that is what I wish to give
So many women came and went
Their aroma gently lost to distrust
My own self, hardly do I know its contours
My own desires, hardly do I understand its yearnings
Love is larger than all
To Love I surrender
When a fleeting light of joy alights on your face.
I know it is Trust that gives this light.
My own self, I wish to surrender
My own desires, I wish to sacrifice.
CHOOSE MONOGAMY
Choose monogamy
From left to right
Right to left
From centre to out
Out to centre
I am happy to die
Each time
To Your Immense love
INSIDE ME
Inside me
There is so much darkness and so many fears
But why bring light to these
They will remain, like I will
Until the day I die
ON THE RUN
Find a moment of quiet because that is you
So what if everyone seems to be on the run
They think world is a ramp with shutterbugs
Believe me, they are mistaken
POT MAKER
Let these kisses not smother you
But give you wings, my friend.
Let this touch not ground you
But give you wings, my friend
Why do you compare, who kisses how?
Even a pot maker
Beats the clay
From inside and out.
Let this touch earth you my friend,
So you know how to fend for yourself.
SIT UP
Sit up
Your life is a performance
Wake up, morning till eve
Magic missiles are shooting in the sky
Jump