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Cadaver - Part 2

2026-06-04T19:25:30.294+05:30

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Friction and repetition

Let me practice you some more

Soon lovers shall hit the crescendo

And time will barge through the allotted door!

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Take her away from my seize

While I wish I could hold her forever

In adversity, I am a fool pretending ease

Without you I literally feel like a cadaver!

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How I miss you, I cannot tell

Would just drown into slumber

And whenever I turn in bed

I know the dumb has just got dumber!

You are occupying my head all the time

I am smiling in my sleep

Possessed by your love

Your Ghost stirring me deep!

Then dawn takes over

And I pout to our dream

Though I don't remember it

But I know that's where you've been!

In your limerence I get up

Go through the daily routine

To maintain the reputation to ace it through

All dressed up to be mean!

Then I drive on, in my steel horse

My head reeling day's schedule ahead

And your thought will come from nowhere

Now I am grinning instead!

So I turn up our playlist

As your Ghost appear in prussian blue

Delude me as if caressing my knuckles over gear

Taunting me that kiss has become due!

I'll try to ignore her

Some call in between would help

I stroke my own hair while speaking

And pretend that it's your scalp!

Reach court in glorious prudence

Troubleshooting the litigants

From distance watching you gesturing handclasp

So I pull you back in the pocket of my pant!

Keep you there in the vicinity of my hose

With a hope that you won't nestle your nose

Or I'll be in difficulty, you know what I mean

The blooming price of keeping you close!

But it is as notorious as you're

Your memories foster the wilderness to spice up my toes

So I take 'em out and put 'em in alveoli of my shirt

Against my hearbeat, and that's how my day goes!

Here I Fall (Without You)

2026-05-29T22:37:06.089+05:30

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Without you

The world will still survive

You're a dream I denied

But baby I'm sleeping tonight!

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Mornings are as dark as my sight

You’re the will I defied

But here I rest my fight!

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Staring at my body from the heights

Your skies I won’t breach

My own hell out of reach

It’s the time to close my eyes!

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Here I fall, there I rise

Here I fall, there I rise!

Misfit in Circular (Song)

2026-05-28T00:44:51.779+05:30

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“From cradle to cart and vice versa”

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Pain, the art

A state of mind

Excruciating poor heart!

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Love, the moment

An eternal thunderbolt

That tore us apart!

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Soul, the virtue of blossoming flowers

We pluck to thwart malodour…

…of their dead counterparts!

Death, the cart

Unladen labors of life…

…to a brand new start!

Pain, the art!

Love, the moment!

Soul, the virtue!

Death, the cart!

bretshree · Misfit in Circular - Bret

Cadaver - Part 1

2026-05-23T16:35:32.473+05:30

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Even if we close the doors over the memories

Windows aren't oblivious to the treasuries

All this dirt was a castle once

And soil never conceived the tragedies!

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You're some story gasping for life

Under your neckline there are laboratories

Our experiments may delve past promise lands

But are we really looking for the remedies?

Breathe for me, it's a comfort to know you're out there

In your being there's a foundation to my ivory-towers

Breathe without hiccups or my heart shall surely miss a beat

I know words won't undo those white flowers!

But I won't mind bleeding to paint them all in a maroon shower

I have a profuse healer in my soul's frontend

In backdrop lovebirds may palaver

In life, we are singular to cheers, in death, I'll be your Cadaver!

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Sick of being strong (Gongs)

2026-05-10T18:25:13.445+05:30

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Everyone knows'

what's right for me

Guess I am the only one wrong!

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Sitting on windowsill

with couple of alters

I turn off the lights, they switch it on!

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Though I know tomorrow

sun will rise for me

But tonight it seems way too long!

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The moon hypnotized me to paralysis

Stars screaming out to me -

"Darling yes this is…

…the place where you belong"

So I am brushing the strokes

Clouding the skies

With the thoughts that I nurtured

Little oversized

Reaping the joys while I mourn!

The morning has come

Twilight Stumbling

I can hear birds perching

And their voices humbling

Still I can't feel the dawn!

As the clouds of last night have ripened

Drizzling of paradoxes widened

I am walking in rain, falling with drops

My being caught in this storm!

Everyone here grows and rises with you

Wish we could fall along!

Encashing on doom is my clumsy alibi

Oh I can't gauge my size with this petty device!

Everyone knows what's right for me

How could they be so wrong!

Strength Fades, Tough Falls

It's a matter of time and above all

I am sick of being strong!

And here my guitar it gongs, n gongs n gongs, gongs, n gongs n gongs

gongs, n gongs n gongs, it gongs, n gongs n gongs….

Forbidden across Incarnations

2026-05-03T18:41:21.697+05:30

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Thanks to your curse

I felt my pulse

Love, in all its horror

Made me witness my worst!

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She raised an ivory tower

Desire poked me on top of her

Then she cast me into an ocean of fire

I couldn't extinguish the metaphor!

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While I burned and was consumed

I kept a grace you never knew

I let the flames get better of me

Black and blue being my favourite hues!

Then she tried to rescue me

Through the music we once were

But my ears could hear nothing

Except the cries of forbidden spur!

I forbade you in innocence

But I forbade her through experience

I cherish the memory of drowning

More than her presence!

I didn't pester, for that was your trait

Nay, erased the very occurrence

For I find myself savouring the fall

More than her absence!

Look well upon this ego

There's no lament to harbour the Ghost

Forbidden her not only from this life

But from every birth my soul may host!

In-depth Dead

2026-05-01T14:47:49.732+05:30

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Life is conceived in ruthless battle

You took your sword out to praise death

Love lingers long after the dust learns to settle

Maybe you waged the war without doing your math!

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What do you call it,

natural selection?

Survival of the moistest?

Blind to the ricochet of your own reflection

Rituals have always been rigged for the choicest!

Don't flinch now, don't feel deceived

Let's deploy your micros to the vast universe

Trigger rhymes here and there

Revere yourself as some incessant curse!

But do you even exist

Beyond being a byproduct of bliss?

I allowed you to bite and bleed my lips

Just remember, it all began with a kiss!

So raise a toast to your being

All the messengers may not talk in metaphor

War may precede the peace

We are blessed to see through this verse!

Forbidden Fest

2026-04-25T15:27:27.394+05:30

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Keep it up

Do not surrender

The end does not exist

I will remain a worshipper

Of your precocious intellect

That led me to this infallible mist!

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I met your clone yesterday

When I sneered past a shadow

It was some tryst

As precious as your breaths

Overwhelming my chest

Silence sealed in the eternal kiss!

Don't bite that lip now

I am not grazing your neck anymore

Hickeys exhausted their wit

Get me some glycerin

So I may simonize my eyes

And feign it to be lit

Otherwise your soul won't recognise me

As the Pan is already split!

I saw your fingers procuring it

Swiped across your mouth

Just to hold my drool in your fist

Funny, you did it slyly

And I knew something was amiss

Extended courtesy to ignorance

Death always topped the list!

You slapped confirmation

With your stupid question

You could have ended it with an exclamation

But you didn't

It irritated me, I admit

Maybe my tone was too harsh

In dismissing your theatrics!

Now it’s buried deep within

Memory under siege

Cry, if the eyes insist

But don't dig

It won’t change recognition

Treasure, worthy of a pit

Percolating down but by bit!

Cry Bay B

2026-03-26T21:09:00.010+05:30

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Cry Bay ß

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Someone, afterall, has to decide on my behalf

So I may not regret tripping on the vibe

In your eyes I see myself dwarfed

That's how my being turns so trife!

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Someone has to echo a reminder between a laugh

Just to cry it out casually: "that's life"

So I stay sorted, just as I am now

Immersed in death beneath the Reaper's scythe!

I admit, I misunderstood it

Misread it all between the lines

Wrapped myself as some sort of gift

Bloody crammed and choked inside!

But how do I assure you we've passed that bus

I once hoped on for a while

The conductor treated me surreal

As we rode straight through the void!

Crazy they're prying my dreams from reality

I stare out the window, though I booked the aisle

I wonder who the stranger sitting between us is

She keeps greeting me with that inviting smile!

The Boob Loop

2026-03-02T20:38:00.003+05:30

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Went to an ice-cream parlour

Ordered a couple of scoops

They iced it with strawberries

And my head got nuked!

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Translated me into a gawk

As my heart joined the marching troops

And now my intent is shaking

Making me chew my bloops!

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They melt slow in my mouth

While my senses coupe

She is a tempest on prowl

I am affliction's hula-hoop!

Adrenaline's switching altars

Bloody gusto is in soup

Every time I close my eyes

I fall right through to spill my juice!

It's some meditation

Makes me feel like a nincompoop

With the wood of ante meridiem

I am stuck in the boob loop!

Nothing else, but nothing

2025-12-17T14:00:00.004+05:30

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We couldn’t have it all

So we settled for nothing

The beautiful, sweet, humongous nothing

That crimson-kissed, moon-fed nothing!

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The abundance of love across eternity

Threaded through our cursed living

And the death we have yearned for

For the sake of that fateful night

Oh! That's nothing!

We drink it wholly, this sacred void of meaninglessness

Cradling this doctrine of nothingness

So raise your chalice to the last supper

Then we will step into vast nothing!

The ghosts carved from summoning nothing

The love that fangs its way into nothing

The music composed in chambers of nothing

Calluses carved in the veins of nothing

The songs whispered into gallows of nothing

The sketches etched for nothing

Tears baptized in ruins of nothing

Collisions falling back into the abyss of nothing!

Her memories invoked the pain

Then lulled back into a velvet nothing

The velvet was black, just felt nothing

Kisses curl into smoke

And the poetry evaporates into abandoned metaphors

At the unholy altar of nothing!

All we have to do is surrender

But the surrender chose nothing

There shall be no surrender now

No surrender shall touch our vow

Not after eons of hunger

Not after the chests we carved open

Just to pull out the trembling instrument

And drain it dry for nothing

Nights like these are meant for nothing

The Pan within succumbed to nothing

To hell with surrender

We will keep the nothing

Cheers to nothing

For what are we, if not nothing!

Rose Petals on a Death Bed

2025-11-05T19:42:00.002+05:30

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She settled in the chaos

And pulled the thread

Took it off my onus

Pushed me through the bed!

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Ridden for conscience

Then she ran off with my robe

Wonder if I followed her

Or if it was her ghost!

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So I roll my eyes up to my crown

Feeling robbed over a good riddance

Yet I shed sarcasm for her

Hope she doesn’t sense the penance!

Coming out of love

Is never an easy job

You’ve got to gather your pieces

Till memories find a knob!

A goddess, maybe

I am just a rabid dog

Marking my territory

Posting riddles on the blog!

Cheers to the deathbed

Cheers to the occupants

I guess I’ve survived it

With the blame, a sole remnant!

- ẞ

P.S.:

Don't need your mouth

Don't need your hands

Don't need your orifices

Let's just pretend we're friends!

Oct Too Insignificance

2025-10-02T23:57:00.002+05:30

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I found a perfect bikini for you

Tinier than your whims

More ludicrous than my fancies

Worth manhandling into a wedgie

Feeling my hands at the helm?

Or some counterfeit overwhelmed?

Speaking of mine

They're dwelling in necromancy

As shades of grey bled into the grim

The gloomy sun too cooled to dim!

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My fingers still carve your silhouette in air

Nails splitting into your intangible eclipse

Accentuating the caliber you calibrate

Your voluptuous enigma made me celibate

Yet jerking off to celebrate your constant need of validation

Ouch! That obscene hesitation!

Touching you is embracing hellfire

Letting you go is orgasmic tease

Pleasures I derive are grotesque to the wicked

The sorrows I reap are heavier than the corpse I've seized

With the lifeforce I churned and mediated

They smell of you, the graves that I've leased!

I walk numb, insensitive to pain,

Deliberately trying to hurt myself

And those who dare to love me

Hoping for some effect to precede the cause

Dispatching your ghost away was most gross

I ripped my heart to covenant with insatiable hunger

It kept on beating until I gulped it down after chewing it whole

In smithereens, my invincible soul!

Living with a sole desire

All hell may break loose

Or dying, perhaps

So damn confused!

Just Kidding

2025-09-19T00:28:00.004+05:30

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What am I supposed to do?

I don’t know how to cry

Struggling to feel the weight of sorrow

Though I’ve lost someone so precious

Enough to drive me mad inside!

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I don’t know how to beg forgiveness

Someone help me find my fault

This reckless plunge they call Love

I’ve no control over this somersault!

It feels like some strange high

That my soul cannot defy

I’m thankful for everything

Even if it was all a lie!

I can’t believe this eerie stillness

How can my spirit feel so numb?

Still in awe of your brilliance

That I’m left so helplessly dumb!

I don’t know how not to honor your decision

If you say we’re done, it’s done

But why have I turned so cold

Against this heartburn?

The world itself has ceased to exist

I am in constant state of carnival

So what if you couldn’t wait for this lifetime

Glad I am cast into a perpetual freefall!

Of Diastolic and Soulmates

2025-09-10T15:31:00.002+05:30

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Not everyone is your soulmate

That takes the pressure off from your veins

By jotting the readings in their brilliant handwriting

A futile liturgy to resurrect your capitulating brains!

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Not everyone is your soulmate

To simmer you along the hush of ivory

Instead, a smolder shy of the pyre

A wilted garland upon a hanging memory!

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Not everyone is your soulmate

Who lures you into their cathedral of songs

Once they ascended like prayers

Now they toll as ceaseless gongs!

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Calling for your confession

If only you could fold your sins

And hold your obsession

To play with sole flame charring the twins!

Not everyone is your soulmate

The one abandoned in succinct diastolic

That voice still echo in your ears

Turning your regrets into whispered relics!

And perhaps, the only one who ever was

You crucified on the altar where pride adorns

Though God spared you the mourning

With a revenant wearing your crown of thorns!

Just Breathe

2025-08-28T18:38:00.004+05:30

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When the sovereign is Love

I am hands down above

The going may get rough

But we are tough enough!

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To stand it another day

Through snippets of dismay

Nothing dismantles your curves

Gosh, that hypnotic sway!

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The bed’s a beneficiary now

Soon the ground will swoon

When you step on it, my moon

My oceanic heart a helium balloon

Seeking only your harpoon!

So don’t burden your head

Unless you’re thinking of this chad

Who only desires:

The warmth of your arms

The fire in your eyes

The spirit of your charms

And the truth in your lies!

Your smiling canvas, where I am the drawing

Your dance moves, slowly sighing

Your addictive breath grazing my lips

My Lion stirring the fire in my loins!

Remember who you are

Though the times are trying

Our snuggling jazz shall beat

To our timbre in heat

I am at your feet, darling

Just breathe!

Escaping 'Us'

2025-08-27T19:23:00.000+05:30

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We are a termless pleasure

Bound by an enduring pain

Each other's serendipitous treasure

From 'us' we cannot abstain!

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Your depth is my map to self-measure

The threshold only we can sustain

Through sudden deaths in your gradual seizure

Fortunate victims of Divine's chicane!

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Shooting stars are rising by the ivory tower

They smell like the virgin rain

If only clouds could bust those flowers

We are thorns pricking the feign!

I am stripped naked in your glare

Collided to lose membrane

Yet prohibited to touch us

Despite irrevocably ingrained!

Return my Umbrella

2025-08-23T20:51:00.003+05:30

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It's raining torrentially

Where are you wandering, sir?

Return my umbrella

I need it more than ever!

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My soul is soaked

My throat is choked

Why you split the heavens?

My umbrella is no device to poke!

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In guise of an affable fella

You refuse to hurt me with your touch

Yet seized my umbrella

To exile me from your cwtch!

Give it back to me now

Or I'll drag you through the rain

You'll be left with no refuge

But fall prey to your chicane!

So don't torment me further

We can share it if you please

My umbrella, a faithful traitor

Never opens on time, only to tease!

The first cut in first person

2025-08-10T14:00:00.002+05:30

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I've known a boy for long

He is a man now, in frame at least

Though past his prime

No more a usual beast!

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He fell in love with a thought

It wore the anatomy of a girl

Following the collision

The abundance swirled!

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She spoilt him way too much

He wreaked havoc on her

Got so narcissistically Rime

Her wrenching warmth couldn't stir!

In the name of moving on

He then broke a dozen hearts

Blamed her curse to feed his vice

Still scathing his scars!

Who healed whom?

When you're in love with a wound

And everyone else is a metallic accessory

The deeper it pierces, the better he is doomed!

What a blessing this curse turned out to be

He got lovers to intonate his art

Sick of hitting the bullseye every time

With his careless stinging darts!

Oh you beautiful healers

Stay away from the simp

He is not bothering you

So spare him your glimpse!

May you all find your respective soulmate

The mutual love that you deserve

He is done with your arcs

He is done with your curves!

Committed to narcissism?

Or just a victim of circumstance?

His self-obsession deriving sadistic pleasure?

Or just seeking obsolete tendance?

But then why push everyone away

What is the deal?

We could have been the very bliss

Alas! I am in love with my ordeal!

Charm of Pandora

2025-07-22T20:20:00.002+05:30

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I don't bite --- but I might, with narcissistic tendencies!!!

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I am just an accommodating thought

Not some serpent with a gemstone

I touch low, being a baritone

And chill your marrow to the bone!

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My intent is never clear

But I always know what I don't want

Darkness's own muse

When the spotlight starts to haunt!

The only sting I offer

Is to deprive you of my time

A little fond of my company

You know, that's how I rime!

Don't confuse it with tempter's tease

It's an ease of laughter dressed in finer jokes

With lips that mock their tender role

To wield the charm within the hoax!

I've nothing against anyone

Mostly a harmless paradox

Yet I can't rule out the peril involved

In meddling with the pandora's box!

Versing the chicane

2025-07-20T16:14:00.005+05:30

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Nailed another coffin shut

Not sure if it held a corpse or a being

Perhaps the former

I heard no thudding!

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Let us rot, like we always do

To die with grace is sacred art

If only we could master it

Breathing with a broken heart!

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But it’s not that grave a deal

Been there, again and again

Did nothing to resurrect it

Except versing the chicane!

Don't fear the death of us

It's a wholesome release

Ghosts may linger for a while

Love, a nagging disease!

So I touched my forehead

It felt cold, like your warmth

Sleep is more dear to me

Than the longing of your arms!

A perfect day to clip wings

2025-06-18T13:41:00.003+05:30

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It’s been scorching for weeks

Fissures spread like forgotten sin

Beasts too weary to be 'in heat'

Mates drift through mating seasons

Revering the myth of lost touch

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(And you disconnect her call

So she may not blush

Or just to conclude the hush!)

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But today, rain came hard

Drenched the streets into submission

Made them all wet

Thanks to our proud, inefficient municipality

We now have a lake by our bed!

Being a bird of Rime

I flew to the terrace

Chasing the high view

Everything looked damn perfect:

A couple of dancing pigeons

Do they even walk?

Planes in the grey sky

While the lightening stalked!

Children floated paper boats

Shouting over their lungs at passing cars

To keep the tides at bay

Oh, what a day!

Devastatingly divine

Soaked chaos masquerading as poetry

And here I am, yet again in my way

Sans sense of gratitude, must have dumped it in a hay!

Until I saw him

An old man, spine bowed

Neck seized by torticollis

Crossing to get him some Samosas from a sweet shop

And that triggers something, life flashes before eyes!

The moment becomes the day’s moral compass

When you observe yourself find strange comfort in his suffering

A flicker of joy lit by borrowed misery

Then you feel thankful not for your blessings

But for the relief that you're not him

What exquisite poverty of thought

What a meticulous grind of sight!

Is that your chosen altar?

How pedestrian your flight!

Funny, what redemption could bring

A perpetual sting

What a shame, birdy

Who clipped your wings?

Sunburnt Sermons of a blah blah Queen

2025-06-16T00:20:00.001+05:30

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And some, they come

Not to linger as long as your ache

Not to finger for the sermon's sake

Nor flaunt the wisdom they fake!

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They come to make you live the moment

Those very brief ones

That bleed into silence

Gone before guilt can reckon!

You may not behold them again

Except they're studded in the sun

Burning where only your gaze could reach

Forgive my pragmatism

For having no clue how delusions breach!

Maybe like a bullet exploding inside the gun

Though you aimed at your own temple

It churned far more than you could afford

Down went your preparations, as fate adjourned!

So what if you never see them again?

What's done is done!

They are guiding through your shadow

Being the sentinels of light

Being the scaffolds holding your crumbling might

Against the winter's burns!

But it is summer now

You can sweat them as you please

If that helps to release

The agony of divine design

Where freedom from thoughts is not so kind!

My advice shall always lean a little sinister

Your sun would never halt you

But it's a blackhole now

Don't rub against the vacuum

Just prick the blisters!

Let it go, enjoy the flow

Life happens in cycles

Who knows if some buried timescale is reserved for a fusion

Where delusion meets pragmatism

The predator reversed into bait

Only if you dare to walk on beyond your trail

Keep on flickering until you turn pale!

Divine Wrinkles

2025-05-24T10:12:00.013+05:30

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The wrinkles on God's collar

are not wrath of the immortals

It's his own running nose,

swabbed repeatedly across worn-out sleeves

Crushing the white collar

and alabaster folds beneath

Spilling olive shadows

where the congregation grieves!

The healer is gasping for breath

Worshippers doing their math

It's not about what one deserves

Prayers seem to be the safest bet!

Nazareth's shepherd was made a sheep

His carpentry carved himself a cross

Skinned alive, crowned in thorns

Perhaps he bore God’s own albatross!

Alas! Your term plans

Can't hedge the son

Every nail that pierced his skin

Was a crimson invoice from Eden!

Then strode a lion among men

Greater than God himself, the Purandar’s son

Not born to kneel, but to roar silence through torment

Tongue cut, eyes gouged, nails pulled, limbs chopped, skin flayed

Yet his festivity knew no suffering

His spirit danced through every blade

He chewed tyranny like sacrament, swallowed oppression

Insured the faith of a thousand suns

And still refused conversion!

Now the land brims with converts fed on subsidies

Cheap rice-bag converts litter the place

Dehors to the culture, like drifting sand

Maybe they are broken beyond mend

Bloody sold-outs lacking a stand

Even though marrow is often gelatinous

Their bend embarrassed the rubber band

Anyway, good riddance!

Whether on Cavalry’s gallows or Sahyadri’s cliffs

Deities have never descended gently

They surge through iron, purging flames

Far from the soft-spoken pulpit's peace

Beyond the scripted bucolic of Maulvis and Padres

Their footprints scorch fields

Their echoes reside in war cries

Wildflowers they yield!

And here I am…

A paper tiger curled in cotton sheets

Tap-tapping defiance in air-conditioned exile

A bedroom's wabi-sabi, yet critical Garfield

Snarling through supper, upholding my shield!

I bow to those who bled instead of blogged

Whose scriptures were etched in sinew, not scrolls

I do not compare

Only fumble through the fog

Trying to balm disorientation

With borrowed metaphors

Signing off, Sirs!

Disclaimer: In this lust, no collars were crushed, only myths ironed with sheen's rust!

Displacements

2025-05-11T13:12:00.003+05:30

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To be lost in someone’s thoughts

Perhaps a sickness where reason rots

Yet they dare to call it love

A silken noose that custom knots!

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Beyond all torment, love is a moment

Lover's the breath

that breaks right through you

Don’t weigh it down with solemn vows

Let the flow be, don't impose a curfew!

Love is wisdom,

While blindness is the alibi

For those who refused to see

Yet dared to grasp what flew too high!

I acknowledge I am promiscuous

But I’ve never cloaked love in deceit

I dwell within my sovereign grace

You're just a glimpse of the beast!

So don’t expect too much from me

I owe no debt to your giving

Keep your moles and metaphorical hills

I’d rather lose feathers than forfeit my living!