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 […]

Silent Mind

If you’ve listened to a whole song With a silent mind, you’re gifted If you’ve had a conversation with someone With a silent mind, you’re gifted If you’ve indulged in day dreaming With a silent mind, you’re gifted If you’ve done a mundane task With a silent mind, you’re gifted If you’ve lived your entire […]

Nonsense

Nonsense is quite common But it’s not omnipresent yet The day it becomes omnipresent Is the day that our world would flourish When everything you see around is nonsense And you being nonsensical yourself You’d be relieved of all your inhibitions You’d experience freedom in its pure form Your life loses all the meaning, that […]

Normalizing

When you see rough handling of children But don’t do anything, you’re normalizing child abuse When you see your fellow beings dehumanized But don’t do anything, you’re normalizing hate When you see powerful exploiting the powerless But don’t do anything, you’re normalizing tyranny When you see people getting subsumed by hatred But don’t do anything, […]

The Greatest Lie

The greatest lie often told by humans To other humans who suffer is “Everything will be alright” No, everything will not be alright Unless one takes some action People might say it is to comfort The sufferer that they say this lie But it is a lie to cover up another lie People want to […]

Delusion

One needs more vocabulary to Describe the horrors one sees As not all horrors are equal Describe the injustices meted out As not all injustices carry equal weight Describe the absurdity of existence As there are many flavors of it Describe the tranquility of insanity As it differs across age and people But there is […]

Count your blessings

Few sayings are more prevalent than This “Count your blessings” axiom, It reeks of self-centered high handedness, It demeans other people whom you compare To make yourself feel better for a while. You never care to understand the “others”, Still you in a heartbeat feel superior to them. But, hey, you never understood yourself, For […]

Who saves the world?

Simone Weil curtailed her food intake To be in solidarity with her fellow humans Who were subjected to tyranny in another country Aaron Bushnell self immolated As an extreme form of protest against a plausible Genocide That was perpetrated in a faraway land An English mom living a comfortable life Sheds tears for those children […]

Fear of the (un)known

Most believe that fear of unknown Is worse than the fear of known A known devil is better Than an unknown angel – it is said But it is the fear of known That makes cowards out of you You know what happens to moral beings You know what awaits you in the end You […]