Aggrieved Intelligence

Your intelligence is of no use Until it serves some higher power Your intelligence is not yours to lose It is for others to crush Your intelligence comes at the cost Of your serenity & peace Your intelligence doesn’t make you wise It makes you despise Your intelligence questions your existence But it forever fears […]

Chaos and Order

You live in a chaotic world Yet you look for order in it You would rather prefer a boring order To an exciting chaos Chaos terrifies but liberates Order comforts but subjugates Chaos forces you to act Order holds you back Order is chaos’ eventuality Chaos is order’s eventuality Both these eventualities Drive you to […]

Chasm

There is a deep chasm between What people think of themselves and What they really are There is a deep chasm between What society proclaims as its norms and What its actions usually are There is a deep chasm between What the world ought to be and What the world actually is There is a […]

Certainty

Certainties are humans’ weakness They are certain that they are exceptional Only to be shown their places By microscopic organisms They are certain that they can control nature Only to be made helpless In the presence of natural calamity They are certain of their infallible intelligence Only to feel stupid By the silliest of errors […]

Here & There

You capture a moment Wanting to save for your fall years When you got nothing to do But to reminisce your past life The moment would be long gone So will your memory of it be Yet a small glimpse of the captured moment Floods you with all the feelings You didn’t know you had […]

Lost in the present

People advise to Live in the present You not just live in the present But you get lost in the present All the things you do to Stop dreading the inevitable Make you get lost in the present, ‘coz When(IF) you project yourself in the past Or into the future, your being gets rattled So […]

Guilt

You see your loved ones slaughtered Yet you somehow survive Only to be consumed by The Guilt of being alive You take care of suffering children And you leave ’em when your time comes Only to be consumed by The Guilt of leaving the hell You see the endless suffering around you And you reflect […]

Uncertainty

LIfe’s full of uncertainty Except for your eventual end The timing of which’s also uncertain Yet you go on Trying to overlook or evade or worse Counter it with excessive planning Not one of which is fool proof You coming to existence itself was not a given Yet here you’re marching towards your end Trying […]

Invisible

You choose to be invisible Not because you like it But because you’re unsure about being visible You remain invisible For you’re afraid of failure You remain invisible For you’re scared of success You remain invisible For there are moral peering eyes You remain invisible For there is crazy mob in the world You remain […]

Torn between

Life is torn between: Unfulfilled Desires and Indelible regrets Incessant introspection and infinite idiocy Calculated actions and Instinctive reactions Cocky confidence and dismal diffidence Constant daydreaming and steady sleepwalking Constructing a perfect outward self and redeeming an irredeemable inner-self Crafting good memories and burying bad memories Chasing the elusive meaning and embracing the ennui Note […]