No Title 11

Resigning oneself to mundanity To save oneself from reflecting Is a deliberate act of self-sabotage Resigning oneself to rumination To save oneself from acting Is a conscious choice of escaping fear Resigning oneself to day dreaming To save oneself from awakening Is a placebo that yields no results Resigning oneself to rambling writing To save […]

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 […]

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

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

Weakness & Strength

To act under compulsion Is it weakness? To not act under compulsion Is it strength? Isn’t weakness defined by What one doesn’t? Isn’t strength defined by What one does? Strength and weakness Context changes everything To act or not act To be strong or be weak Is not as clear as One’d like to think!

Isolation

Isolation is needed sometimes To isolate oneself once a while, helps – To free oneself from humdrums To reconnect with solitude To question the prevalent absurdity To stay from the maddened “others” To hold on to the dwindling sanity Isolation is good in small doses Just as everything else In this indifferent existence

Flight or Fight

Sometimes innocuous questions Lead to unintended consequences Sometimes well intentioned suggestions Interpreted as uninvited meddling Sometimes well thought out actions Result in grave situations Life has its own ways, irreverent About one’s intentions The question becomes Should one go Into the shadows, or Should one go Running to centre stage?

Routine

To have a routine – Implies one’s life largely – Goes by set of expected events Is devoid of any unpleasant surprises Has activities to get distracted Has a beginning & an ending every day Yet does routine take away life’s essence? The ability to get surprised by events Happening in next second/minute/day? Is building […]