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Where are you Musafir these days
Everyone misses you
A jug of wine has come my way
A drink with you is due
We shall drink to the good old days
To youthful innocence
To sincere and some wayward ways
And to our irreverence
There was no sorrow nor was pain
Only a bag of hopes
Hurdles were crossed with sweat and strain
And victory at the ropes
We all were young and had no clue
What would happen in life
The skies were clear and heavens blue
That was enough for life
Each day was consumed with pleasure
One day each at a time
There was no rush, time was treasure
Each hour was given time
To have fun needed no reason
For that there was no plan
There was no restricted season
Friends made a happy clan
There were no fears or faith in stars
Work was not discomfort
We tried again failure didn’t scar
Victory came with effort
Through stormy seas we captained fate
As masters of our soul
We are steering our own fate
Musafir where’s your goal
Ajay Kumar Singh ‘musafir’
Ajay Kumar Singh 'Musafir' is a poet who prefers and promotes the rhyming verse format. Born to Draupadi Devi nee Rai, from Khajraitha, Bihar, and Arjun Prasad Singh of Olipur, District Lakhisarai, Bihar, he studied in Bethany School, Darjeeling, St. Josephs College school Darjeeling, and DPS Mathura Road, New Delhi. He graduated from Hansraj College, Delhi University (1984-1987) with a BA (Hons) in History and did his post-graduation from JNU, New Delhi (1987-1993) with an MA and an MPhil in International Relations. Thus during his formative years he was in exile from his beloved home Neel Kothi, Lakhisarai. Hence his intense longing for his hometown - Lakhisarai.
His literary journey was ignited by the two masters of Urdu Ghazal poetry, first by Meer Taqi Meer and Ghalib when Sanjeev Ranjan, raconteur par excellence, a friend and a mentor, took the trouble to explain Urdu ghazals, which till then was an insurmountable wall. This simply opened the floodgates. His other influences were William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Kabir, Tulsidas, Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, Rabindranath Tagore and Bollywood.
Indian History has been a passion ever since he began to understand its dynamics in the third year of his honours course in Hansraj College.
He adopted the pen name 'Musafir' meaning traveller as we all are Musafirs travelling from one place to another, one age to another, one world to another and one life to another.
He is currently a Civil Servant, resident in Gurgaon.
He has written The Donkey Chronicles (2017), Poems From Lakhisarai (2017), The Sounds of Silence (2017), Locating Lo-in-ni-lo (2018), Musafir Nama I 2017, II 2018, III 2018, IV 2019, V 2019, VI 2019, Asoka (2019) and Musafir Nama VII (2020). All except Locating Lo-in-ni-lo are poetry collections. He plans to write The Mystic Journey.
