As I lay there looking at the stars… I thought of the countless men and women, who might have layed there the same way, looking at the sky and those twinkling stars Some of them in the not so distant past might have been like me escaping their roof for the sky Some long long ago into the unreachable past of my mind might have been … Continue reading The realities of walls and a roof
In the pages of a book we find, what we cannot see. we see, what we can only imagine. we imagine, what only we can create. we become the reader, the character, and more…. we become ourself, and more… So read……. Continue reading So Read
Become small; tiny The world can no more see you Become insignificant, trivial You won’t matter anymore to them Be incompetent, useless No one will bother to compete again Be alone; secluded People will stop connecting with you Be foolish; idiotic The world will stop advising you Be yourself, original And world will fire up to change you Continue reading We and our world
When the last year ended and this year started as a single human family in this world we faced some very terrible events of hatred and violence. I wrote about them and unleashed my agony and helplessness through my words for a few days after each event and then did not know what to do. I decided to take up a 30 day challenge to write one … Continue reading The 30 day Love Haiku Challenge
O’ Brave…. go there and sip the honey the bees are kneeling down to appease their queen you feel you don’t belong here and I know it is odd…. but when it comes to honey even the bees are not aware of what they do…. you can steal it, you are human that is what we humans do steal, kill or bled our kin it … Continue reading Human Bee
Sometimes I go back and read things that I have written and tell myself “shit, how can I write like this? like I have never done anything wrong. How awful…..” The fact is every day I look in the mirror and something shatters inside me. Being moral, being good, being righteous is not easy it is very tough. I falter every day, some days during … Continue reading Shatters Inside Me
I am a nothing but from when…? from today onwards I have decided to enroll in this new classification of nothing. So today onwards I am a nothing yes I was human up to a few moments ago but decided to leave it it was too heavy for my fragile self My existence was being lost in the burden of being human being a nothing … Continue reading I am a Nothing
He never walked into the mortuary he was taken there. a few people walked alongside the stretcher that carried him. he did not know anyone. he was dead. he was dead was the verdict. but he was sure, even the guy who did the postmortem did not know that he was killed and not dead killed and dead are two different things. he never knew … Continue reading The Killed and Undead
Then one day it all stopped coming the poem, the story, the dream the clouds, everything as if they never existed for me And then I heard about that flightless poem that lost its wings in some old story I also heard the story of a butterfly that could never escape its caterpillar existence I saw the clouds that came down and started walking on … Continue reading The beginning of the end
I have journeyed in language and often lost my way between words been stranger to some of them, yet found profound meaning even in the tiniest of them….. I have also journeyed in thought and lost my way trying to figure out the direction in which I was going…. I have been a third person in my own mind have fallen in love, disagreed, fought … Continue reading I wish to be free to be lost
Vinod Narayan 