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 […]

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

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 […]

Denial

The happy phenomenon that Everyone loves and embraces But when reality hits All those denials hit one hard The denial of others’ misfortune Often dismissed as “lazy or complaining” Comes back biting when one encounters The very misfortune one dismissed The denial of external forces Wreaking havoc in others’ life Often ridiculed as “not knowing […]

Art & Artist

Should one separate Art from artist? When art is Artist’s expression, Would artist’s bias Reflect in art? Wouldn’t society that Artist lives in Influence the artist? Then, should one Separate art from The artist’s society? Wouldn’t people who Live in society Influence the society? Is there an End to this? Given this should One just […]

Shadows

Shadows are the place Where authenticity lives One needs shadow Just as one needs air To not just repose but To be one’s true self even If it’s just for a while Why one might ask For the bright light of Reason forces one to Seek the true self in shadows What about emotions One […]

Renaissance

If one were to hope for a Renaissance in one aspect of This absurd existence what Would it be? Would it be Aspect of No Thinking or Aspect of No acting? Would it be the Aspect of not regretting or Aspect of not caring? Would it be the Aspect of subservience or Aspect of rebellion? […]