गुनाह

 Gunaah - Paap- Sin 

These are the fear factors that hold a human from their full expression. God alone knows the truth of desires. 

Desire to love, togetherness, holding hands, resting head on shoulders of a kindred soul, or just immersing in book with head in beloved's lap, sharing of silence and steam from a cuppa warming hearts and hands.... simple expressions of truth and yet risk the label of being condemned as sin and dismissed with wrathful social conviction. 

Yet heart doesn't stop loving with as much intensity and sincerity that it continues to beat rhythm of life into man. 

कभी मर्यादा 

कभी कुछ मान्यताएँ 

आ खड़ी होती हैं

बन बाध्य 

बांध देती हैं

लकीरों में 

लक्ष्मण के नाम पर

फिर पूछते नहीं बनता 

कब, कहाँ, क़ैसे और क्यों

ख्वाहिशों को पुराणों ने

गुनाह का जामा 

पहना दिया।