Category : English Poems

Just For The Show

All those things man does just for the show,
Display’s that his thoughts have gone so low,
Eventually towards the living hell he shall go,
To all lowly temptations, one who can’t say No,

Actions have consequences even if you don’t know,
To Adam’s that sin, God said, didn’t I tell you so,
Life feels burden to them who simply don’t know,
Fools can’t even realize what garbage they tow,

Defeat is not a death and success turns into sorrow,
Those who can’t think, go find fine minds to borrow,
All his life who’s just pined for the show, must know,
Nobody cares, many such fools just come and go.

Just a show without substance used to be the mantra for political and religious spheres but now that has percolated into all the aspects of life.

When display starts to matter more than the deeds, believe me, the end is near. Even if such a society or person doesn’t self distrust quickly, they will certainly become mentally unhinged. 😉

Frequent news about people dying while taking selfie says it all. We haven’t invented many techniques for birth but we are amazingly efficient in finding new ways to end life for sure.

Anyway, if you are living for just a show, don’t stop ! Because then you will realize there is nothing else to do in life for you and odds are high that you will be depressed.

Many psychiatrists are giving the wrong prescription of cutting social media time. Rather those who feel depressed, must take more selfies or change the filter ( because for this patient reality doesn’t matter anyway ). My advice is that  if you are taking 10 selfies a day, take 100 or 1000, because when there is no time left to think about anything else, how can you feel depressed and have a moment to reflect on the fact that nobody else likes you more than a dog you are taking selfies with. ( No, I don’t want to say that even that dog doesn’t like you but you have just made him dependent for food and shelter so… ) 😉

Category : English Poems

Darkness & Depression

Whenever,
In the dark corners of your heart you go,
Daemons possess you,
Making you feel so low,

Will you ever be able to see the light again?,
You don’t know,
Those empty moments are so crushing,
And it feels so raw,

All those words,
Suddenly echoing with advices you never heed,
All those wounds,
Suddenly goes more deep as you start to bleed,

Whenever darkness shrouds your path,
And you know not where will it lead,
A glimmer of hope, is all you need,
A moment of future, as a seed,
A light which can lead,
And a warm heart, forgetting all your past deed.

There is a reason why an unparalleled and deeply philosophical “Geeta” starts with “ArjunVishad Yog“. But not everybody is fortunate enough to have a companion like Krishna to pull him out of it. Or rather I should say, not everybody can be deserving enough like Arjun that Krishna will help. Well, but Krishna, one of the greatest forms of sublimity to ever exist, has left the eternal words for us to learn from.

While I agree that normal human beings are incapable of dealing with too much emotional distress, I have found that most of the problems arise because of our habit of making mountains out of molehill. Besides, most of our uneasiness with existence is derived from raw sensations. Our happiness and sadness is mostly because of our sensory experiences and has nothing to do with the totally incorrect and hackneyed  phrases saying that existence in itself is painful. Even Krishna tries to kicks such nonsense out with very first utterance of advice to Arjun by saying that (क्ष्रुद्रं ह्रदयदौर्बल्यं तयक्त्वोतिष्ठ परन्तप – Geeta – 2.3) it really doesn’t suit the worrier like you, so just get rid of such nonsensical emotional weakness and stand up.

If a person just simply understands that which is gone cannot be brought back and that which is not in our control cannot be controlled, will make most of the worries and anxieties totally unjustified. All the advice from Krishna in “Sankhya Yog” ending with “…शोचितुमर्हसि ” tries to convey that meaning.

In his play Richard-II, Shakespeare has this dialogue, “….Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay, The worst is death, and death will have his day.” Similar to, जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च… ( Geeta – 2.27 )… Whatever / Whoever is born is destined to die ( or every beginning has an end ) and whatever is gone will come back too ( every dead will be reborn )… Ever wonder why everything is circular / round in nature / Universe ? 😉

So, now you tell me, what’s there to worry? 😉