Category: Poetry

The Intoxicated Road

I walked sober on that intoxicated road that took every traveller through its crooked, twisted, askew pathways reaching every unknown destination…. I stopped at a tavern to learn its history… And I heard a long forgotten lullaby I was stopped by a masked guard; I removed his mask; he was faceless…. but he had a [...]

The Night

Centuries of day when crammed into a single night it was like a thousand stars shining for eternity but time was confused all those coming together atrocities, lies, brutal insights into man’s incompetent self being the fabricated stories of divinity progress, morality, love.. it was just too much to handle it fell apart, stopped, moved [...]

Where did you bury our freedom of speech?

Where did you bury our freedom of speech?

Where did you bury our freedom of speech? Poets, artists, singers… they all hear a question inside them…. on whose side are you..? on whose side are you..? and they answer…. their poems, songs, plays, documentaries… they voice against atrocities, casteism, inequality, farmer suicides, Malnutrition corruption, female infanticide… They demand women be educated, be liberated… be [...]

It is always about

It is always about

It is always about a doubt bringing essence to every clarity It is always about a fear that you unknowingly overcome It is always about a music that you need to tune into It is always about a friend that you need to find Believe.. there is always love as long as you are open [...]

Atheist

Atheist

I saw the month ashamed.. hanging on the Calendar One of its most important day missing… some religious day when the world shuts its door to work and prays… I turned the calendar page to take a peek at the coming month And I saw the day…. hiding behind another working day.. It said to [...]

A Kind of Truth….

A Kind of Truth….

Devils residing in the residuals of half dead strangled emotions…. Rising to overpower the humanness of every societal taboos…. Beneath the fabric of the mind you can find that less known fact…. “Every emotional lie is stronger, correct and pious than any accepted magistral truth”

Acknowledged

Acknowledged

Characters from old fables my grandma told Uneaten morsels of my most favorite dish Forgiveness for mistakes that I never asked Broken promises some that I got and many that I gave Futile attempts to make a difference Failed and successful attempts of deliberate camouflages All Acknowledged…..

Legacy

Legacy

Innocence murdered in the pretext of Education Knowledge abused in the shadow of Progress Inequality thriving in the name of Religion Masses slaughtered in the pursuit of peace Mother Earth vandalized in our addiction to lavishness Nations and leaders corrupted in the practice of politics What a fucked up legacy we leave for the future…..

Words

Whenever words knock at my door I let them in each one of them even the ones I don’t know the meaning of….

Yet Another day

Broken promises Adorable smiles Sadness buried in glitters Abandoned searches of lost identity The dilemma of the delusion The murder of sanctity Birth of deprived emotions Judgement of immorality False assurance of immortality Death of worthiness Subtle expressions lost in chaos and choices you never had All returning yet another day Yet another day…