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, […]

Choose Wisely

You need something to hold onto More so in times of despair You choose philosophy It only pushes you deep into despair You choose community It makes you lose your individuality You choose faith It makes you lose your sanity You choose stimulants It numbs you to the core You choose absurdity It liberates you […]

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 […]

Abandoning Reason

The more you bubble wrap yourself in reason The more you are prone to suffering from reason You make no attempt to expand(alter) your world view You dismiss others who challenge your world view You feel your reasoning is as strong as an armor of steel You think your reason will follow you till end […]

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 […]

Cope Together

You think you are good at coping with All the hardships that life throws at you You become so good at coping That you believe you are special You see others who can’t cope As some sort of lesser beings You never realize your privileges That you’re born to and grow with You think you […]

Hell

Sartre said “Hell is other people” Hell is not other people Hell is our “self” A reflective self is the hell An indifferent self is no self The self fights relentless battles Against the herd of sheep in the world Only to end up in hell But a reflective self cherishes this “hell” At all […]