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

An Ode To The Intellectual Existence

What I’m saying,
People are not understanding,
I can differentiate,
Their passion and pretending,

It’s not me, but,
they need mental upgrade and mending,
Quality thoughts,
Are never going to be trending,

If I try to pander,
Their basic instincts by descending,
It will be the beginning,
Of my intellectual crash landing,

I never have and never will,
Succumb to any bending,
Even if alone,
I must try whatever deserves upending,

What will you do,
When you are on top and outstanding,
I’ll still look up and not down,
It’s grit, not grandstanding,

As cold’s destined for contracting,
And fire is always expanding,
My burning thoughts,
Don’t really need anybody’s branding.

First and foremost, even though the first person singular subjective pronoun ‘I’ has been used in the poem, actually it represents all those rare exceptional intellectual beings. No it isn’t egoistic to know and describe oneself as it is because only dumb are unaware about who they really are 😉

Fortunately or unfortunately to be ‘intelligent, exceptional, genius etc’ or not to be is never a question asked to us by the creator. So what to do when someone is gifted with exceptional abilities? Well, everybody will give different answers ranging from, to use such potential for social good, to make some money out of it and retire in a remote place for good. But no matter what such individuals choose to use their ability for, one advice I would like to give is not to let your edges be dulled by the pressure from surroundings.

Incredible thoughts given via philosophy, literature, art, music, science etc   by such individuals are acting as beacons for many budding Buddhas. Why the knowledge of Geeta is still relevant today and why we are still trying to prove the theorems and formulas proposed many decades or centuries ago, and why exceptional literature still exerts more force than the pull of black hole. No matter in what field these geniuses belong to, the only thing common is that they walked on it all alone like a Bright Star ( previous poem ). Because they knew that some of the thoughts this world will not be able to understand even after a thousand years.

Most of the time something which is understood and appreciated by the masses is cheap. It is easy to explain because if everybody is able to understand exceptional things then well, they are exceptional! But we all know that’s not the case. Advent of social media has laid bare the utter foolishness of the masses. In such ugly situation, it is even more pertinent that few of the remaining beautiful people unite and use our energy in more creative work. 🙂

Especially in a country like ‘you know what I mean‘ where there is no respect or reverence for being thoughtful, it is very important not to waste energy in dealing with fools around. 😉