Friday, 30 October 2020

The broken beads

 

The beads on my neck

Well, for first, they were a gift from you.

The colour so beautiful as wine, were a contrast to the pale skin of mine.

The pretty stones carefully sown together, now mine!

 

The beads on my neck are the careful collection of my memories, with you.

Memories of how boyishly handsome you were, struggling with nervousness and excitement and this curious question in your eye

"Will she like it?"

The beards on my neck were a quiet surprise!

 

The beads on my neck are the consolation when my days are gloom and in happiness conveniently forgotten

A member that was new, now gotten used to

My hands search them for courage and comfort, for they are my only console, only console..

 

The beads on my neck, shattered today, the weight of the stone bore the silk thread down

The thread, did try on its own to bear the stones, but the stones..  the stones.. Oh! so heavy.. the stones..

Tell me what do I do?

Mend the broken beads or my broken heart now?

Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Knight

 

Let me be your knight,

Let me pave your way

Let me bleed for thy dream

Oh my king, Let me lay my life for thee!

The finer shades of fine.

 

When I ask, “how do you do?”

“Fine”, you say

Now tell me dear

Fine, is it the actual fine that all things are in a routine Fine?

Fine, is it the brighter fine, where you are drowning in sorrows fine?

Fine, is it the denser fine, where you are so caught up in life you shall explain morrow!

Fine, is this the polite fine that says, “oh.. we have drifted apart” and you wouldn’t want impose?

Fine, is it the leaner one, being the best strategy to avoid further conversation?

Or rather fine, the cooler one, where life is shining too bright?

Okay fine.

Which fine is “the fine” you say?

So when I ask next time

Please take pity on this overthinking mind

And don’t say fine!!

Thursday, 15 October 2020

the meaninglessness lament

 

When you sit in meaninglessness... You wonder how you reached here. Did you fancy Robert frost and take the path less travelled or did you believe in Emily Dickenson's Hope, hoping that you would find meaning? In that journey of finding meaning you go through so many phases.

In all the phases we go through some are blessed in being stuck in one, forever. The phase of illusion I would say. The illusionary perpetual.  Begins rightly with you, being that good child in the perfect mold, which the capitalist parents desired and grow up to be exactly the way, society traded. You would find meaning in the meaningless, not that you are wrong, but that you are too sure of it. It becomes the thing with feathers that drives you desires. Easier life and quicker death awaits you.  In death its translucence is intermittently for some, others casually miss it.

Then they are the partially blessed ones, whose lives are shattered... They go through loss that's unbearable, immovable, that deliciously drowns them, such purgatory they live. It's like a daydream, waking up to their worst nightmares and sleeping to escape. But what they don't see is, this escape temporary, traps them in bounded burden. Burden in such a way that they sinks into this dream like state, only at death, awake.

In this are a few courageous one who fly above the chaos to connect with what is within. They skew from their loop, which can be done in two ways. Now imagine you being a traveler standing, two roads diverging. Which would you choose? The easy being the one where you end the sustenance of creation in you. Where you say, “enough is enough” and take the plunge, in one easy swift moment you choose. This would be the road that is less travelled, for it is not for the faint heart and the rational mind.

The other path being the slower, chosen by the wiser, the way of cutting through worn out leather dedicatedly. Where little by little, you shed your skin, again and again with all the curve balls life throws at you, letting all the callous in your hands to grow into callousness to fear, where you reach a stage that you are too exhausted to fight the current but now wiser, ready to flow, in the direction it takes you. You simply flow, flowering all the little you can. Touching all these precious lives. You have no stagnation. For you, stagnation comes only in death. Only in death you find peace. Only death gives you that crumb to reset and restart.

 These are the two extremities of the scales, many in moderation also lay. For between extremities they exists infinities. I won't say it's awful, neither awesome. It's probably the attitude you summon.  In hopes to choose the road less travelled, ultimately you only becoming one in many, as previously done. You begin with a search, a search for meaning, only to end up meaninglessness again.