Retrospect

Everything seems obvious In retrospect, all The unintended dumb actions The unthought through words The unnecessary awkward silences The unending idiotic ramblings But are those really obvious? One grows & shrinks everyday Is it wise for the present you To retrospect the past you? What one gains from doing so, More regrets and wishful thinking? […]

All that’s left of you

All that will be left of one Are the memories, even those Are going to be short lived Should one strive to leave Good memories for others? All that will be left of one Are digital traces, but those Are going to live forever Should one strive to leave Any digital traces at all? PS […]

Memory Movie

Observing Thoughts is a scary endeavour One starts with a silly thought of a memory That was formed years ago Out of nowhere one observes mind strings Together a set of memories that Had no relation with one another One wonders how mind could pull this off Stringing unrelated memories into one cohesive film Isn’’t […]

Photos & Memories

Do Photos give meaning to our memories Or do memories give meaning to photos? If it is the latter, then aren’t we missing out On creating memories when taking photos? Or does taking photos aid us in forming memories? When memories are so fickle and mind forms its own memories by interpreting reality On its […]

Privilege

To give up is privilege To be hopeless is privilege To not to worry is privilege To let evil crush you is privilege To be nihilistic is privilege To await death every day is privilege To let go off is privilege To genuflect before power is privilege To forget is the greatest privilege Inspiration

Memories

People say only memories Matter in the end, that All of us will end up only being in Others’ memories But what does this craving mean? The craving to live long after death Humans are so self-centered that All they could think is about their “immortality” In the larger scheme of things Nature treats just […]

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 […]

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 […]

Closed Room & drawers

You store your memories in drawersIn one of the many rooms of your mindSome opened, some unopenedSome holding your darkest secretsSome holding your deepest fearsYou leave the room untouched for yearsOut of nowhere happens somethingforcing you into a dilemma whether to open the room and the drawersWill those fears haunt you or those secrets humiliate […]