Fellow Traveller...

To him do the roads reach?

Find me the pathway that goes to him,

Where he can be himself, again;

Find me a memory that belongs to him,

Our destinies are undefined, fellow traveller;

Let’s stop here and decide where to go,

Walking the mid-night roads of Srinagar, I know –

It’s better to stay dark, sometimes, than to glow,

Where has this smoke come from?

It seems someone has lost his soul,

Where would you reach roaming this Jungle, O’ Traveller?

Stay here tonight, stay in my world.

But when he ruminates, contemplates; I feel,

Someone has heard the tales that I told,

Fellow traveller, this journey is so long,

It feels I've been home ages and ages ago,

Our destinies are undefined, fellow traveller;

Let’s stop here and decide where to go.

- Syed Rehan