For once I ask, who are we? Trademarked ruins or a transgressed
generation serving as a monolith? With neither sense, nor purpose of enlightenment,
why do we meander around the walls of idiosyncrasy?
With silence we reproach from insides, never raising our voices louder than a
childish whisper. Just a murmur and we suffice to the sufferings. We subject
our wills to be demolished by the storms of suicidal society norms. Similar to
a doomed wasp within a candle area, we annihilate ourselves. Self-destruction
is what we are talking here!
Us, the would-be-achievers, the Lennon-dreamers we are called, wait! I want to
rest all your misconceptions! Give or take a person, we are a mistreated and vile
trash. Nothing more than a single insignificant thread in a despicable yarn of
threads. We search for our degenerate paradises, deep in our carcinogenic day
dreams, and believe that a pseudo world of beauties exist beyond the horizon.
Progressive are those who have bedded solitude in this lamenting wilderness of
waste. Rest of us, damned! Owned! Possessed by our own lifestyle, haunted by
our own misdoings! We live in a diabolical sea of misshapen dreams and gruesome
scars, hiding our battered souls for the crystal perfect world would break if
they (read society) know our insides.
Wake up! There are no Lennon’s and no Gandhi’s breathing amongst us. A refuse
was what we were, an acceptance is what we will be. The monoliths would soon
walk for humanity would not be tainted by one meaty headed generation. Dreamy
cages and alternate realities are meant to be stapled. Aim for the stars, only
then we will rise from the depths of shallowness and would fall on the Earth. Look
beyond the horizons, beyond hells and heavens and look beyond the cauldron of
truths and lies. For, what you seek is what you get!
(First Published In udaipurtimes.com)
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(Published in: http://campuswriting.com/2012/10/30/the-bleak-silver-lining/ )
(Also Published in www.artipot.com ; http://www.artipot.com/articles/1433907/the-bleak-silver-lining.htm )
The Second last para.!!! THROBBING..!! It's wondrous to know people have started to fall on the earth, look beyond the horizons and have stapled their dream cages and existent realities. Great views.
ReplyDeleteWe aim for sky..but if we are able enough to fall on this earth from the depths to which we have sunk to, that itself would be an achievement!
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