Mismatched socks

Mismatched socks

Round heels with blob like toes,
My feet marched to a country so near.
Thinking of mates and stories left behind.
Dreaming of new musings and plots to unwind.

Now my toes crawl into a petal shaped shoe.
Not knowing the narrow spaces,
With no sign boards and smell.
An old body with new garb.

Walking inside out of the box shaped rooms.
Where the mundane work mounts;
Into moth shaped beings with chiming mourns.
Crossed eyebrows arching on wide hips.

Ribs now feel like a queen’s corset.
Crushing my curves and numbing my nerves.
A short saunter with distant thoughts,
To reach a place with an apocalyptic soul.

Feed my rumble to a promise of slumber.
Prepare my bed with voices from native land.
So I stretch my curved toes to have a perfect fit tomorrow;
Wake up to find my ankles sunk in mismatched socks.

Mismatched socks, reminiscing tales of parted destinies.

Soul-deep

Soul-deep how does this sound I sat down to wonder
Often those odd thoughts and ideas emerge from there
Sounds bitter-sweet, hard-soft, harsh-crude and more chimes
Myriad shapes of the mind that tell tales and sings songs
Many times they look different, apart, and out of scope

Soul-deep how does this sound I sat down to wonder
When I throw them out to the world that is drenched with morals
They rhyme like knife and stones bundled up in a bag slinging violently
Words that form potent force to fight many tall tombs and blood lines
It takes less to fit in and more to stand out and spot the dark corners
Or it takes the same to sing the glory of our own righteousness

Soul-deep how does this sound I sat down to wonder
Feels like a long walk, a loud noise, a silent awakening
Looks like a joyful keel running from head to toe
Smells like simple beans or dried leaves
Runs into valleys and sometimes bottomless pits

Soul-deep how does this sound I sat down to wonder…..

Whispers of Being

Can it be formless, boundless, and limitless
Always trapped between words and spaces
Always trying to contain it when it is as abundant as the sky
We never fail to restrict; when it as to flow with no set patterns
It is explored with set boundaries
It is nurtured with expectations
It is most often crafted to take a definite shape
It is often left loose to scatter and run thin
It is often glorified to the end of our nerves
So it does with vengeance; giving away pain
Do we see it; we all set it to patterns
Patterns that acts as partners or foes
Can it flow like water, feel like air and flash like sky
It will sometime bend your back; with twist and turns
We set it in patterns and dots to take up shapes and forms
An alliance for; happiness, love, lust, companionship, friendship, ties, trails, tribulations
It runs to endless names as long as our mind’s horizon
Can I just let it be, grow, form, re-form at its own will
Will it all run forward-backwards in many tunes
Spikes of glory, heights of ecstasy, valleys of wounds
Bounded-unbounded we will run it anyways

My Old Tamarind Tree

A tree of six heads and endless tales,
The big one stands tall for eternal dance
The rest swings its glory and learn their steps
Morning rises, for us to set march
One by one up the tree
Inching, winching, tip toe and bare feet
Stop reach the tangy highs
Treasure trove of multiple seeds
Stories and expeditions of the six soldiers
O My Old tamarind tree, grandmomma's precious seed
Tall, green like a peacock dance
Filled with stories of ghosts and bravado
My old tamarind tree, waking up to you
In summer time, for tangy highs in our lifetime
We march in victory tip top toe to another morning
Full of mystery and new brown diamonds
My old tamarind tree, to you we surrender our tangy tales
Once in a lifetime, forever etched in our six heads of muddy madness
To our old tamarind tree our holy mate of honor

Comfortably Numb........

We are extremely numb people - only truly sensitive to our feelings, thoughts, pain, agony, fear, needs, desires etc. We dwell on it almost every second, but not realizing that it’s ok to have such things going in life, we have to stand up, fight, work our way through or out of it and also work towards eliminating it.

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The marginalized and polarized sections of the society for whom, basic necessities of life; is more often a luxury or a mere dream. War, ethnic and communal conflicts; blood, bullets, broken lives, homes, families, utter helplessness; their basic right to live or exist is taken away, violence against women & children, the torture cells where many nameless, faceless people in the name of terrorism are held guilty without a trail. They are the present day Hitlers’!!!

----Remember we have a life full of abundance------

The happy world and the not so happy world (majority of humankind belongs here) - Where do we go from here? We just remain numb in our world. Yes, we talk about it, we debate about the other world, but there is no action. Inaction leads to no where. The point is we are self centered comfortably numb people. We need to shut up and walk right out and play the part in this scary not so happy world!!! Move our ass in short!! Move it!

----The Song Goes Like This------

Men and women of this world
We all are different and similar in scores of ways
We are born in different worlds
We all have certain lives
This is either full or empty

Men and women of this world
We bring faith and hope in the name of lord
We shower young lives with many lies and ways

Ways to discriminate and abandon
Ways to subjugate and destroy
Ways to pride ourselves
Ways to disgrace others
Ways to proclaim power
Ways to moralize lowliness
Ways to uphold chastity
Ways to abstain from humanness
Ways to smother the feeble ones
Ways to enrich the prevailing ones
Ways to celebrate the patriarchy
Ways to repress the women
Ways to gloriously nurture the riches of the richest
Ways to effortlessly breed poverty
Ways to mine elements of universe
Ways to use these elements against its own
Ways to swindle the abundance of nature
Ways to ruthlessly operate the world
Ways to dastardly shred the human mind
Ways to con the innocent and naïve
Ways to make them soldiers of your mind’s twisted corners
Ways to slay many amazing lives
Ways to discolor a million rainbows……

Men and women of this world
All of these are manifestations of the human psyche

O MANKIND DO YOU REALIZE
WE ARE THE CREATORS AND PERPETRATORS OF THIS WORLD

Sacrifice

Sacrifice

Here I am again standing tall but in vain
Looking for you to fly oceans and walk the seas
To travel through life’s vastness
There you go leaving me alone
To battle black and white
A promise made for us to live
A vow broken, I weep in despair
I ask thee why this penance to depart
When you are firmly attached to my soul and beyond
Why do you seek and look for me past my broken wings?
How will I fly with my bleeding soul?
You fervently ask of me to provide love
While you are resolute not to provide
And you name it sacrifice
Forgone for other mortals of blood and kind

Politically (In) Correct or Just Whatever…!!! ???? ##$$

Evolution - people, circumstances, the world, right, wrong, good, bad, ugly everything has evolved from what it was centuries ago, but we still hold on to principles that are either outdated or came into practice at the very beginning ! Move on!


Religion; your God, my God, and our God, leave this with in your four walls of the house, do not carry it along and see the world through this lens. Your faith, belief, prayer and all things holy is intrinsic in nature. Once you set foot on to the world outside, we all are equals one and the same. However, if there is discrimination, bias, violence anything in the name of religion; it is important that we as humans stand up and make noise so that it is rendered powerless or simply non-issue. Remember humanity, it is the only thing that stands tall. Sounds idealistic. By products of religion or the human minds – caste; isn’t it the ugliest manifestation of our deep desires to maintain power, authority or control over our fellow humans. Those who have access to knowledge or information, stay not in that equilibrium, but stir things up, shake the ground, let the skeletons tumble out, put it out in the open, do not keep your eyes wide shut; let the rage flow into a light. Hold it up so none can miss its brightness. Let this swell up, until the time; those so called higher state of beings (read it has caste fanatics) begin to melt in the heat of this brightness and realize their true power or sense of worth. How do we do this? You, he, she, I and we and all together begin to create transparency in our souls and bring the daemons out of the closet. If all religions preach love, peace, brotherhood, equality , heaven and many more things all same and one -humanity; why then we mortals deliberately construe principles against humanity. Every religion has its own ruthless doctrine, rituals, and customs – Abolish! Scrap! Undo! Abandon! Annihilate!

Society forgets that their primal purpose above all this is to foster a sense of peace, equality, to nurture humanity and a sense of togetherness. But instead promote division, discrimination, and many cruel and brutal things. We all still remain silent. We continue to adhere to all its brutality, we refrain to be transparent, refrain from seeing or removing or identifying the many generations of unhealthy ideologies. We live a comfortably blind folded numb life. There are many humans who do not wish to follow; sometimes they rise, stand, win or fall fighting, some remain silent, some express etc. I belong to this ‘some’, who take conscious efforts, real actions to see it in the eye, try to their will’s end and beyond to stem the filth out of the system. In case you want to know, I have many such comrades.


Marriage is the way forward in life; completes your life…. If you don’t conform then you are labeled a rebel, and many more names. Symbols of a marriage are only for a woman; another way to tie her down, a reminder that she is a property, an object owned by her better half. These symbols that the society holds close to its heart, remains a mere lifeless object with no sense of purpose nor does it evoke any kind of positive feeling, does not evoke love or a sense of equality. These symbols are given utmost priority, placed a step above trust, love, equality, respect, and to put in a nutshell - you. Why do these preservers of society or culture forget that we all grow up with a mind of our own, we all develop our own set of feelings and emotions, that every individual has a right live or choose their own path? Can a person's right to enter matrimony be solely their own will, not forced by externalities. Can a human being choose to be single? If one chooses this path; the first finger almost certainly is pointed towards parents; telling them that they have failed in fulfilling this responsibility and they are accused of bad parenting etc.You are accused of crossing the line, flouting, disruptive behavior, and being obstinate. In reality you are just letting yourself develop your own sense of purpose or simple life. No, do not expect someone else to set your life pattern. This someone can be your parents, your relatives and the many mortals.


Sex, put in simple terms is a need and it’s not taboo. We attach many prefixes and suffixes to it; and take it forward and equate it with sacredness, chastity, purity, the divine, virginity etc. We make sex a finite task to be done after union in holy matrimony. Holy is attached to things/issues or just about anything either to make it simple or complex. All it should take is consent between two adults. If one has pre-marital sex; they are called characterless, with no sense of righteousness. In this context or scheme of things where does child sexual abuse/rape etc figure? What do you tell a victim of rape/abuse that its fine to be subjected to this pain, but you should know that it happens to anyone or just about anyone. You need to carry on with life, still believing that sex is sacred, and can occur only with in the institution of a marriage. Add the gender-bender here; men by nature’s law can have multiple partners and not be associated with virginity; but for a woman, her soul motive or reason or purpose is bringing purity, being a virgin, and many more titles. Endless, we (me too) are all hypocrites. We never actually understand our sexuality. We are taught not to understand and not to explore. We are programmed to abstain from knowing and experiencing this need in its true sense. Free yourselves if you wish from this vicious design.

After all you truly belong to yourself!!! Have fun. Know thy self.