Perceive

To perceive others’ flaws Is much easier than To perceive one’s own, as Doing so would mean To encounter the actual self, that’s More cruel, more nastier More hypocritical, more unhinged Than the perceived self In the depths of self lies All the buried “unacceptable” thoughts Yet one’s self-perception As an ideal to be emulated, […]

Disengage

To disengage from society Is not to seclude oneself But staying clear of the cacophony To disengage from impassioned arguments Is not to give up one’s beliefs But preserving one’s inner harmony To disengage from one’s thoughts Is not to disengage from oneself But holding on to sanity in an insane world To disengage from […]

Holding on

People hold on dearly to Insignificant events & things In the hope of Having meaning in life People hold on dearly to Irreconcilable ideas & inane thoughts In the hope of Feeling ahead of others People hold on dearly to Invisible beings & inexplicable phenomenons In the hope of Understanding some larger wisdom People hold […]

Understanding Others

Understanding others is a tough act To be able to understand one Must accept self-ignorance for To understand means acknowledging One doesn’t know everything about others To understand means not judging From what happens on the surface To understand means seeing others Just as complicated beings as one is To understand means overseeing Idiocy others […]

Trust and Indifference

Is trust a form of indifference? To trust someone’s judgment Is as good as being indifferent to one’s decisions To let someone have space Is as good as clearing Headspace of their thoughts To trust or not to trust To give or not to give space Is a tricky choice to make It’s not as […]

Denial

The happy phenomenon that Everyone loves and embraces But when reality hits All those denials hit one hard The denial of others’ misfortune Often dismissed as “lazy or complaining” Comes back biting when one encounters The very misfortune one dismissed The denial of external forces Wreaking havoc in others’ life Often ridiculed as “not knowing […]

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? […]

Possibilities

Optimists find possibilities In anything & every where Pessimists find possibilities In nothing & no where Both are failing To realize something Finding or not finding Possibilities don’t matter Only thing matters Is to go through Existence as if Everything & nothing is Possibility – Possibility to Be the end at any given point.

Nostalgia

A simple rewind button, or An inescapable self trap, either way One loves to escape Existence’s vicissitudes for It helps one stay Oblivious of one’s finitude All one has are Coping mechanisms to Stay functional and sane In this cold uncaring universe Yet one continues living Knowing very well it could End at any moment […]

Distraction

Everything is nothing But a distraction From the cold Bleak uncaring existence To avoid distraction Would be catastrophic Yet to do That takes courage Courage to stare At the abyss And not feel Anguished by it One must try It on occasions For it sure Grounds and liberates