No Title 5

To aim for milestones is To aim for failures A milestone makes The destination important Rather than the journey Not having milestones Is no fun either For the journey won’t Begin in first place One ends up in Kierkegaard’s famous quote Have a milestone Not have a milestone You’ll regret it anyways

No Title 3

Curiosity blooms from The roots of Will to live How does some Have the will While others don’t? Shouldn’t it be Inherent in everyone Given evolution & all Or is it Nature’s way to Show that not Everything is a given Some are worth Struggling for such As this will

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 […]