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 […]

Holding on

People hold on dearly to Insignificant events & things In the hope of Having meaning in life People hold on dearly to Irreconcilable ideas & inane thoughts In the hope of Feeling ahead of others People hold on dearly to Invisible beings & inexplicable phenomenons In the hope of Understanding some larger wisdom People hold […]

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 […]

Distraction

Everything is nothing But a distraction From the cold Bleak uncaring existence To avoid distraction Would be catastrophic Yet to do That takes courage Courage to stare At the abyss And not feel Anguished by it One must try It on occasions For it sure Grounds and liberates

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 […]