Sophie's Choice

Berlin! as you can figure from the road signs

if doing this
were to translate as
not doing the other,
if it were as simple as that,
then my dear, i am afraid that
the human race would have been extinct,
out of boredom

ChameleonSpeak

Bremen Dearest

And even in your lies I realise the Truth.
Or it probably is that which makes me realise the Truth.
Like the wise people under trees say,
it is after all the darkness that leads one to the light
if it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger, right?

I’m lookin’ to the sky to save me*

I know the sky has no location. Dosteovsky drilled that into my head. Nevertheless, I took this picture at the Vrindavan Gardens in Mysore.

There is something quite intriguing about the sun.
For, everytime daylight breaks,
you miraculously find new reasons, to breathe.

[Explosives,pyrotechnic devices,Electro shock weapons, Strike anywhere matches, Flammable gas cylinders, Flammable liquids and solids, Substances liable to spontaneous combustion, Substances that emit flammable gases in contact with water, Oxidising materials such as bleach, peroxides, some fertilisers, etc., Toxic substances are strictly prohibited on this flight. Kindly go through our baggage information for more details.]


*The title is borrowed from Learn to Fly, by the Foo Fighters. Needless to say, the song has absolutely nothing to do with my blog post. It is a mere act of convenience to hide my inability to come up with competent titles. Do listen to the song.

Schizophrenia

They sent me a letter.
It read-

"The best way to accept reality
is to live in it."

I folded it
Put it under my pillow
and went back to sleep.

Dream, for only that can keep you awake in sleep.

For mirrors and echoes

I decided to paint
once the lights went out.
Not because Darkness was
what I wanted to portray

I was too scared to
accept the ugliness.

The Linearity of Time we live in

Thank goodness the word has only three letters in it
Were it any longer, I probably would not have had the strength to say it:

Bye.

Boomerangs are a great invention.

Lacuna Inc.*

Memories:
Clogging the neurons;
The brain is bursting
at its seams
and you cannot afford
To sew it,
All over again.
Swallow that pill,
And remember what
Eloisa said to Abelard

* The title is from 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'. The character played by Kirsten Dunst, Mary Svevo quotes Pope's poem to her boss, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak.

We missed the train we boarded

May be it is unwise to befriend moths. But they are the easiest to.
I'd rather destroy light to save them, than hope for them to turn into everlasting tortoises;
Their presence in the transient dusk is far more eternal than the leaves falling off the Giant Oak, every autumn. And Gatsby could not have had a happier ending

This is the 50th post of this blog. Quite an abysmal record considering it began 1127 days ago. Anyway, for those of you who still read it, thank you.

Part of the Queue*

This one is
For you,
You who dreams beyond
those clouds, for
greener pastures
and pristine blue skies.
There is nothing
more than a gray-walled
cemetery out there.

I used binoculars.

I have borrowed the title from a particularly favourite Oasis song of mine, from their 'Don't Believe the Truth' album. The post, however, has nothing to do with the song, as you might have already figured. I felt that the title suited the poem (if you can call it one). Oh, and do listen to the song.

Especially

It is quite flattering to be made to feel special,
Especially in a world of six and a half billion as yourself
And countless other things
Like the bacteria in your stomach
And Animal Planet.

P.S. The plant you see in the picture is no more. Neither are its four other siblings.