kyun???

y is it that people dont like sad/un-happy/depressing messages for status messages or taglines??

i mean just coz they have a sad/un-happy/depressing message doesnt necessarily mean that the person is sad.un-happy/depressed; they probably are, but not always...and just coz they post a happy message, doesnt mean that they are happy...i mean it the most difficult to write sad/un-happy/depressed words or pieces of writing, a song, or poem...its very difficult, i mean someone like gulzar made almost a living out of it, i mean i know that he doesnt only write sad songs or movies; its known more for its simplicity than for the sadness part, but still, he is so amazingly 'connectable' with his ghazals and all...its very very difficult to write sad stuff, u really have to alot of searching within urself to make sure that u're writing the right stuff....anyways....enough for now...im sounding sad now...more on this later...

here's one that i penned some time ago...(but was not in a sad/un-happy/depressed mood)

dafan kar do iss bachpana ko,

isme zimmedareyon ka ehsaas choot jata hai;

dafan kar do iss hasi ko,

isse gambhir soch chhup jati hai;

dafan kar do khud ko,

khud ka toh wajood he kya hai??

Existed

If you leave who will prove that my cry existed?
Tell me what was I like before I existed.

-Agha Shahid Ali

As Ever

So I'll regret it. But lead my heart to pain.
Return, if it is just to leave me again.

"Till death do us part". Come for their sense of us...
For Belief's sake, let appearances remain.

Not for mine but for the world's sake come back.
They ask why you left? To whom all must I explain?

I laughed when they said our time was running out--
I stirred the leaves in the tea i'd brewed to drain.

An era's passed since the luxury of tears --
Make me weep, let blood know its rain.

Still beguiled with hopes of you, the heart is lit.
To put out this last candle, come, it burns in vain.

-Agha Shahid Ali

Not All, Only A Few Return

Just a few return from dust, disguised as roses.
What hopes the earth forever covers, what faces?

I too could recall moonlit roofs, those nights of wine --
But Time has shelved them now in Memory's dimmed places.

She has left forever, let blood flow from my eyes
till my eyes are lamps lit for love's darkest places.

All is his -- Sleep, Peace, Night -- when on his own arm your hair
shines to make him the god whom nothing effaces.

With wine, the palm's lines, believe me, rush to Life's stream --
Look, here's my hand, and here the red glass it raises.

See me! Beaten by sorrow, man is numbed to pain.
Grief has become the pain only pain erases.

World, should Ghalib keep weeping you will see a flood
drown your terraced cities, your marble palaces.

-Agha Shahid Ali

Rang De, Basanti?!

-Faltoo paisa lag gaya; yeh picture wale jo hai, aaj kal cheat kar rahe hai.

-Kyun?

-Picture dikhne gaye, Rang De Basanti, teen ghanta baithe rahe, Basanti aayi nahi!!!

shayari...

Tum mujhe bhool bhi jaao, toh yeh haq hai tumko,
Meri baat aur hai, maine to mohobbat kee hai...
---------------------------------------------------------
Maine kab tumse kaha tha, ki mujhe pyaar karo,
Gairon ne Zafa ki, toh ki, koi baat nahin,

Pyaar jab tum ne kiya tha, toh nibhaya hota,
Gair toh gair hain, Aap se yeh ummeed na thi
----------------------------------------------------------

(no, i'm not that good in writing that i write all of this, this is somebody else's original work...hat's off though...)