• I want to see
  Only and only you
  Be in my view
  Before my eyes
  Come closer to me
  Like fire flies
  Come soon
  Like shining moon
  Show me your face
  Don’t keep me in mess
  Come soon like moon
  Before my eyes
  In the sky
  Sky of my dream

  Shashikant Nishant Sharma ‘साहिल’

• • When a man tried to give a 25 paisa coin to a beggar
    The beggar refused to accept and said further
    O sir, my mother and father
    There is price hike everywhere
    We accept one rupee coin or more
    The man said louder
    I can’t give you more
    The beggar said being impatient
    Why are you standing? 
    And not understanding
    Come and beg with me
    I will pay you 50 paisa per client
    Begging is immoral an illegal
    The man tried to give counsel
    The beggar replied with caution
    Begging is my passion
    Now it has become my profession
    Thinking to expand my business
    Cover more areas and make it larger
    He uttered an offer
    You join me, my brother
    I will make you my branch manager
    Of the new venture
    The talk stops
    Prevails a silence
    He thought better to leave
    Without letting anyone notice
    Reality is far from our perception
    Stop giving alms
    Make a difference
    Help if you can
    Don’t promote beggary
    In the name of charity
    This is the reality
    {This was written after overhearing the conversation of the beggars and subsequent news of beggary as profession promoted by some gangs in Cities. Also a small documentary on Delhi Durdarshan channel showed how some greedy persons in beggary mutilated the limbs of small child to make them beggar. Since then I have not given any alms to any beggar.}
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• O river teach me
  How to continue journey
  Without stopping and tiring
  O clouds teach me
  How to fly high
  With mind so free and fair
  Without any worry and care
  O sun teach me
  How to live life so disciplined
  And serve all equally without biased
  O water teach me 
  How to get mingle
  With one and all
  And sing jingle
  In hilly areas and jungle
  O moon teach me
  How to remain cool
  And wait patiently for happy days
  Guide others on their ways
  O trees teach me
  How to bear sun and rain
  And provide shade and shelter
  Without any complain
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Beautiful, beautiful
Purple, violet, red
Spotted and varied
Butterfly, butterfly
Little Rishu does say
Come and play
Butterfly, butterfly
Like you 
I want to fly 
Very, very high
And view 
Beautiful flowers
And playing kids
Who oft skids
While running
Playing in the garden
O beautiful butterfly
Come and take me high
High above in the sky
O my sweet butterfly, butterfly

O my grandmother
Sweet like sugar
You are great
You taught me alphabet
How to write
With pen on paper white
You taught me later
How to do things right
You made me bold 
To pronounce the word
You took me to school
You are so nice and cool
I played more
Learnt little
You used to wait
Sitting on the stool
Till my class ended
You cared me
Whenever I got wounded
You taught me every little thing
Like an experienced teacher
You guided me to learn
From the things of world
New and old
No one is far better
Than you 
O my grandmother

In the blue sky
I saw clouds fly
And I saw
Many figures carved out
Some resembled elephant
Some resembled palaces
And some giant faces
Some were like hills
The cluster of many a cloud
Shining bright and thundering loud
With joys, it fills
And food for my imagination
And source of inspiration
For poet, painter and writer
Who sketches there figures
Who is this mysterious painter
Living in the abode of cloud
And hiding from the crowd
Of people on the Earth
Smiling with mirth

Nothing, nothing that I wanted in this life
Full of cares, worries, hurries and strife
A change came in me, when I saw you
When you came here near my view
Then suddenly my heart stated uttering
O my darling, my heart is beating
For you I am waiting
I love you, don’t you love me? 
Is there anyone in your life or only me? 
No one can love more than I can
If you don’t believe me
Then you are free to leave me
But you can understand and scan
To love you I am the only man
There are many men in the world
But it’s me who value you more than gold
With you I am ready to bear Death’s sting
O my darling my heart is beating
For you I am waiting
Come, come in my life
Like a dropp of water in thirsty man’s mouth
Forget every differences and divide of north and south
Cross every border and boundary line
Come and have a bottle of wine
In the stary, romantic, moonlit night
By the earliest possible flight
Double my happiness and delight
Come, come before the end of night
We will enjoy hearty talking
O my darling, my heart is beating
For you I am waiting
Don’t make any excuse or tell a lie
Come, come closer to me before I die
Nothing, nothing that I wanted in this life
Full of cares, worries, hurries and strife