No Title

Will No Title Ever be norm For all works? Why must there Be a title When work conveys The real meaning What value does A title bring? Isn’t title making Whole work redundant? Some claim that Title is bait For the work If work needs Bait to draw Doesn’t it say Something about it? Let […]

Impertinent

Impertinent words sting Impertinent advice belittles Impertinent actions debase Impertinent silence squanders Impertinent boasting ridicules Impertinent inaction invalidates Impertinent laughter besmirches Impertinent writing insulates

Surety

What follows surety? Complacency or Sanguinity? For being sure Makes one arrive At a crossroad What one chooses Makes the surety Boon or bane, but Can one choose Surely for oneself in A deterministic universe?

Projection

Humans project their thinking On to others In a blink To avoid assuming responsibility But there’s good In some projections One notices in self The very trait Projected on others Do humans need it To realize self-inadequacy Vicariously understand oneself ? Or is it nature’s Way of making Irredeemable humans grounded? Note : Projection

Illusion of choice

Illusion of choice The illusion of choice Is a powerful placebo People get to think There are more choices To choose from yet They tend to choose The one they would’ve Chosen even when There were no choices There’s a comfort in Choosing the known one Even when unknown ones Could be a sea change […]

To Search or not

Search implies curiosity It also implies vulnerability Not all searches Result in triumphant finding Most brings disappointments Some wreak emotional havocs To begin searching Aware of these outcomes Means accepting vulnerability To satisfy insatiable curiosity Does it mean To search is senseless? Just as everything else Including indifferent existence?

To see or not to see

Do people see What’s out there As it is, or People see what They want to If it’s latter then Does it tell More about people Or about the world? If everything out There is horrid What’s wrong in people Choosing what they’d Like to see One would better make Peace with it

Citadel

Citadels surveil & protect One builds inner citadel And surveils oneself To stay grounded And protects oneself From becoming stupid But constant surveilling Causes ceaseless tremors And continuous protection Makes one ignoramus The very causes Leading to inner citadels Get defeated by the citadels Citadels or not, this Indifferent life’s Sisyphean venture.

Stories

Stories that one tells To oneself are influential The origin for these – Is it the upbringing? Is it the environment? Is it the media? Is it the peer group? Is it the arts, or Is it the self Through its relentless thinking Makes up own stories? Within or without Stories are influential

Barriers

Hard to break barriers One doesn’t know about Harder to break barriers One knows well about Those one built oneself Over many years Knowingly sometimes Unknowingly other times Influenced by million factors All slicing the self By thousand cuts Forcing one build barriers To protect what’s left Of the desperate self Only to realize barriers […]