Citadel

Citadels surveil & protect One builds inner citadel And surveils oneself To stay grounded And protects oneself From becoming stupid But constant surveilling Causes ceaseless tremors And continuous protection Makes one ignoramus The very causes Leading to inner citadels Get defeated by the citadels Citadels or not, this Indifferent life’s Sisyphean venture.

Stories

Stories that one tells To oneself are influential The origin for these – Is it the upbringing? Is it the environment? Is it the media? Is it the peer group? Is it the arts, or Is it the self Through its relentless thinking Makes up own stories? Within or without Stories are influential

Barriers

Hard to break barriers One doesn’t know about Harder to break barriers One knows well about Those one built oneself Over many years Knowingly sometimes Unknowingly other times Influenced by million factors All slicing the self By thousand cuts Forcing one build barriers To protect what’s left Of the desperate self Only to realize barriers […]

Weakness & Strength

To act under compulsion Is it weakness? To not act under compulsion Is it strength? Isn’t weakness defined by What one doesn’t? Isn’t strength defined by What one does? Strength and weakness Context changes everything To act or not act To be strong or be weak Is not as clear as One’d like to think!

Irresistible

The forever irresistible urge To think back on not act A privilege for few To act but not think A habit for many To think and Act Gets rarer everyday The always irresistible urge To value talk but Not walk the talk Is an omnipresent behavior That keeps world going No matter how shameful It […]

Tolerance

To what extent One be tolerant? Tolerant enough to – Ignore people’s idiocy Overlook others’ obliviousness Put up with insolence Let slide boneheadedness Forgive wanton ignorance Agree with indifference One’s self negligence Endure poor writing Is tolerating these A self-sabotaging technique?

Isolation

Isolation is needed sometimes To isolate oneself once a while, helps – To free oneself from humdrums To reconnect with solitude To question the prevalent absurdity To stay from the maddened “others” To hold on to the dwindling sanity Isolation is good in small doses Just as everything else In this indifferent existence

Self-Introduction

There is a total senselessness in Self-introduction to strangers Unless one has a eidetic memory No stranger is going to remember, One’s weird name, even weirder occupation, then What’s the point in carrying on this Totally absurd shtick non-stop? Is this the unquenchable drive To feel self-important, or Is this the unwavering commitment To keep […]

Petty Quibbles II

Needless to say My own experience Don’t know if I can tell you this I think… I guess…,I think… I could be wrong Take what I am saying with a grain of salt I am not sure if I am the right person to tell you I guess I was wrong Sorry to bother you […]

Flight or Fight

Sometimes innocuous questions Lead to unintended consequences Sometimes well intentioned suggestions Interpreted as uninvited meddling Sometimes well thought out actions Result in grave situations Life has its own ways, irreverent About one’s intentions The question becomes Should one go Into the shadows, or Should one go Running to centre stage?