Thursday, April 3, 2025

Miserable by default

 

Very rarely and very few

get finally really settled,

We are forever migrating,

We are a jumpy species,

Never on solid earth,

It seems the only inheritable things are

pain, sorrow and suffering,

But joy and happiness

we have to create in this very life,

Nurture as a dream, a destination

as we move on the

default mode of misery.

Rain in vain

 A hardness building up

in the soft, mushy zone

that enveloped us,

And the night even though

aglow with fireflies

lost its charm

like candles going off

when hit by

a howling blizzard.

 

She was silent outside

but screaming inside,

Crispy above

but pain-roasted below,

Flitting, flirting and dancing on surface,

but weary and bedraggled inside,

There we were

forcing ourselves to assume that

things were normal, even though

there were many proofs to the contrary.

 

There we were

pushing each other

into the pools of pain,

Earlier it was a

joyous jaunt in the rain,

Aah, the rose that blossomed in vain!

The true pearl

 A fragile world we set up

around ourselves with our dreams,

destinations, envy, hope and fears,

Then we create a shell of hate

to keep the pearl of love in it,

It glitters,

But it isn’t a love-gem,

It’s our hate crystallized for self-deception.

 

Love comes with the inclusion of

more and more around you into your care,

And in this fertile soil

blooms a flower,--

love for someone.

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Metallic maggots

 

Mother earth says:

O ye children, give me all your blood,

gore, filth, garbage, poison, chemicals,

I’d still give you flowers, trees, pastures.

 

A mother can’t stop giving,

She has to keep giving,

Till her last breath,

Till she perishes.

 

When the last flower on earth will die

along with the mother’s last breath’s sigh,

Her children would then

be replaced by a new species,--

the humanoid machines

that’ll infest her rotten corpse,

It’ll be a global grave

swarming with metallic maggots.

 

Thursday, March 27, 2025

The pack mule

 

Sometimes apparent luck

is leading us into bad luck

further on the way.

Then you realize you have

a mountainously bulky foolishness

inside your little shallow brain.

Out of the whirlpool

 

The more he came to know,

the more he realized

how little he knew her,

It was all there to see now,

Her pointless rambling pride,

Concisely pointed narcissism,

Habitually despondent demeanor,

Her efficient effrontery,

Swift certain selfishness,

Extensively ornamented body

covering a poor soul,

Her manners laced with

coquetries and jealousies,

All this he saw now.

 

Earlier, the whirlpool’s vortex

sucking, pulling him into

soft languor and pleasure swoons,

Shaken, swirled by the eddying currents

now he got spewed out of

the vortex’s pointed base,

Gasping for breath,

he came to the surface

from the edifying depths,

Looked at her with a

frigidly disagreeing look on his face.

 

Falling out of love is perhaps

just to know more about a person,

Maybe we are addicted to the fall,

And fly just for its sake,

Because, however high a kite flies,

it still survives by constantly eyeing earth,

Maybe love also flies

to enjoy its habitual crash-landing.  

Monday, March 24, 2025

The witness box

 

When you steal

and nobody is watching,

Remember You are there

as the judge and police.

 

When you tell a lie,

And all believe you with an ‘aye’,

Remember You are there

standing mute with a cold sigh.

 

When you are angry at your enemy,

And find the cause in your foe,

Remember You are there

looking at the enemy within.

 

There will be a day

when this You in you

will come forward

and make you stand

in the witness box

to turn witness against yourself.

 

Don’t meet in the court as enemies,

Meet You in you

before it’s too late

and die as your own enemy.