इंसान है तूँ खुदा नहीं (Raudra Ras Kavita)

‘Learn to cultivate your anger’ is one of the dialogues I fondly remember from one of the iconic Bollywood movies, Ghatak. The role of angry young man was played by Sunny Deol and his father, Lt. Amrish Puri guided him to cultivate his anger so he could inspire others around him to be fearless.

“क्रोध को पालना सीख, काशी” he said. Recently, I had a few days where I felt extremely angry and I channelized that anger into the Raudra Ras Kavita below. This Raudra (anger) is directed at a fictional character who I perceived as the target to lay upon my verbal wrath. Now when I looked at it after several weeks, I decided to publish it.

I don’t wish that you re-live your anger after reading this. I would rather wish that you will find an outlet for your anger through these words.

Here it goes.

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कांटे बिछा कर रास्ते में मेरे
तूँ सोचता है किये की सज़ा नहीं
कुछ दुश्मन न हों ज़िन्दगी में
तो जीने में भी मज़ा नहीं

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छीन लेता गर कोई छीन पाता
कोशिश करने वाला तूँ पहला नहीं
कैसे मिल सकता है तुझे भला
जो किस्मत में तेरी लिखा नहीं

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जो पाया है पाया मैंने मेहनत से
खैरात में तो मिला नहीं
मौका तेरे पास भी था ‘दोस्त’
दुबारा मगर ये मिलता नहीं

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मेरा रब्ब है मेहरबान मुझ पर
मरने का मुझे खौफ नहीं
पा कर जाऊंगा मैं वो मुकाम
जितना तूने सोचा भी नहीं

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मेरा इंतकाम तेरा साया बना रहेगा
वक़्त के धागे से ये बंधा नहीं
तूँ भूल गया है शायद
इंसान है तूँ खुदा नहीं

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