(Un)Importance

You thought being educated Makes you important When it didn’t you thought Being well employed does When it didn’t you believed Being a do-gooder would help When it didn’t you presumed Being a cynic does When it didn’t you decided Being a nihilist would come in handy, but Nothing would ever make you important Your […]

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 […]

Weird Existence

Existence is weird: We go forward to look backwardWe remember so to regretWe doubt so to believe We smile so to be inauthenticWe cry so to be authenticWe think so to be stuck We grow so to decayWe breathe to stop breatheWe live so to die.

(In) Authenticity

We all go around fakingLaughing at the authenticAuthenticity scares usFalsity consoles us We think we’re betterOur true self knows we’re notWe think we’re wiserOur intelligence knows we’re not We go around signalling virtuesLonging for our ego’s rescueWhen reality hits usOur Naked self terrifies us