Authentic Living

Are you an authentic being? How to live an authentic life? Can you ever be always authentic? All these and many more questions On authenticity have no answers Or sometimes have many answers Living faithfully on one’s own terms Is termed as authentic living, as some argue But where do these terms come from? If […]

Hiding

People hide behind ideas To not face the real world People hide behind customs To not face their doubts People hide behind dogmas To not face the changes People hide behind niceties To not face others’ ugly minds People hide behind work To not face the prevailing bleakness People hide behind lives To not face […]

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 […]

Mystery

Disclaimer: could be troubling, Readers’ discretion warranted People endure miseries In the hope of a better tomorrow A tomorrow that never comes What sustains their lives? The unending miseries Or the never diminishing hope Wouldn’t it be useful, if they Simply give up What stops them? The all powerful will to live Or the mere […]

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 […]

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 […]

Seriously?

Should you take your words seriously, or Should you take your actions seriously? Should you take others’ opinions seriously, or Should you take others’ indifference seriously? Should you take the prevailing world view seriously, or Should you take the opposing view seriously? Should you take your reason seriously, or Should you take your passion seriously? […]

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 […]