It's a #stunning ride
In the luggage compartment
Of a packed train,
Seated on the floor
By that door
Legs dangling out,
There are no mates
Better than the nobody there,
And you need a mate
To wake you up
Before you fall off
The train to stunning nowhere.
#vss365#truestory
Waiting for doctor,
It's tough to think about love.
Yama's no Cupid.
But, gallows humour
Sounds truer than TLC.
But, truth is not nice.
With one foot in grave,
Revenge and #victory lose
Their place to slumber.
#vss365#haiku#senryu ?
Those who have been near death
Talk of some #luminous marvel
At the end of a pitch black tunnel.
Those who have not been near death
Think there's power outage in their tunnel.
There's another lot
In that tunnel.
They don't say or see much.
They are nowhere everywhere.
#vss365
“There’s one thing good about war:
News—total BS,
Everyone’s a murderer,
And there are no friends.”
“For true writers who balance truth with lies, support #wavers:
There’s too much fiction,
History gets a chapter,
Can’t even sell love.”
“Ah! Bad!”
#vss365#haiku#senryu ?
I sleep so well now.
The young are on the right path.
They are like machines.
No soc m, no po*n,
No ciggie, not a foot wrong.
No joy, no freedom.
Nirvana from birth?
Will they kill their Frankenstein-
#Bountiful machines?
#vss365#haiku#senryu ?
I left before you were taken to the pyre.
Not a tear when your mum and I hugged.
I lied to her, "She'll be with us."
I saw your abuser but I didn't bash his face in.
They wanted us cursèd ghosts out of their #orbital.
In my cave, I laugh and scream, "She'll be with us."
#vss365
Long ago, I had the luck
To compare the #lambent sunrise
And the look you gave me.
Curled up against each other,
We forgot it’s bad luck
To compare the sublime.
So long ago.
#vss365
#Democracy is the only system of government which shows without any reasonable doubt that the majority has chosen a narcissistic psychopath as a leader.
In the good ol' days, democracies chose leaders & governments that gave the masses the chance to say, "No one else has a bigger joker.".
Now, even democracies don't allow that freedom.
#justsaying
The day before the end of the world,
I prayed for a companion till the end,
Good gods misconstrued that as #abstraction of the end,
Bad gods took it as gallows humour.
#vss365
Yesterday, a cousin hanged herself.
For an hour, it was all about her.
For 30 minutes, we accused her spouse.
For 10, her kids. M-in-law, of course.
Lowered our heads,
Watched reels on mobile,
Noted callertunes not prayers,
Was hers Mission Impossible or Total #Recall?
#vss365
What was I thinking
When all seemed #achievable?
Some flicker of luck, probably,
Dreams of grandeur too,
Did I hope my life would
Allow that which others get?
#vss365
“But there could be...”
“Others? Last one was a poet. Tender soul. #History feeds him stories, the present’s a grief and the future’s non-existent. He strives for penury. For freedom’s sake, his emotions revolve around his words.”
“Wouldn’t life be better with him?”
#vss365