Naina

One day while travelling on bike, i was listening to songs, not at all willing to see what was happening around me,  not at listening to sounds of horns , those engines and brakes and silly rikshawala talks and at the very next moment i put my leg on brake with full force, my hand on front brake, bike drifted , engine stopped, that jerk shifted my butt on my bike's petrol tank and ear-ins came out of my ears, opening the way for intrusive horns, engine sounds and a killing silence which was the loudest voice i ever heard. Silence of my heart, which had stopped pumping.
                           In front of my eyes were 2 eyes wrapped inside a burkha. Two eyes, so deep.Two eye-brows,So neat. Two eyes so wide to swallow me to the fullest. Two eyes which had to say something. What was it? fear? No not at all. Then what ? Until i could figure out what those eyes were trying to tell me someone yelled at me "Abe andhala ahes ka?" and i lost my focus. I adjusted my spectacles which were becoming obstacles in way to those eyes. And again my heart started, started like a pump. My ears became active making me hear some really poking words and i came to realty, i started my bike and started moving to avoid listening to  people shouting at me. But in this hurry i lost those eyes. I again inserted those ear-ins in my ears , and those two  nossels started poring the fuel of music in my head..and guess what which song started....Nainaaaaa.
                                  Line by line that song got wrapped around my mind....though i had listened that song thousand times before but this time it was different. Why different? Because this song was describing what just happened to me..Naino ki mat maniyo re...Naino ki mat suniyo....Naina thag lenge. Why would a great poet like Gulzar ever criticize eyes. For centuries poets around the world have spent there lives to describe the beauty of these two biological miracles, to describe how these two small black and white balls show us uncountable colors and what not. Then why would Gulzar criticize them?Why?
                                  And yes  there was some reason to say so....then i remembered those eyes, wrapped in burkha. What was in those? Love ?fear? questions? surprise?hate? Yes all these things were there. Those eyes were pouring drizzle of love, fire of anger and ashes of fear. Really those eyes were doing it all. How can a single thing do all that ? So it was truly said ki Naino ki mat maniyo re...kyunki Naina thag lenge.

                                   And the song continued "bhala manda dekhe na paraya na sanga re ...Naino ko to dasane ka chaska laga re". Truely did it really matter to those eyes who i was...they just stabbed me...straight and deep into heart. Did those eyes really cared who i was? of which cast i was? No...all they did was...just entered straight into my heart. As the song continued i realised more...."Naino ki jubaan pe bharosa nahi aata ...likhat padat na raseed na khata....saari baat hawai re". One thing was sure those eyes had stuck in my mind....i was in love with them....because there was surely some love in those..but how could possibly i say that? Did i have any proof that those eyes had love...who will believe those eyes which i had only seen...did i have any receipt of love...no no..nothing, everything was there but where?....in air? At last i realised that those two thugs had really bullied me.  Naino ne thag liya re baba....finally song finished...i was so happy that those  skillful thugs lied to me and robbed my heart for some time....sweetest robbery...most beautiful thugs...Haay re ye NAINA....