Playing catch-up with my aspirationsI’ve been left behind in the raceUnrested, I try sleeping through itYou still haunt me every other night Borrowed notes from father timeLiving a high risk gameThe separation still lingersGhosts that refuse to die Why are they so alluringWhat disorder drives me to ruin?Cancers growing within meSelf efficacy the only motto…

As quantified as it may beInherently money has no valueIt adds nothing to usExcept burden, debt, and artificial inflationI never speak economically, only poeticallyThings, as valuable as they are, are equally empty insideDo people add value to us?Connections with other beings?Social media rewards “engagement”Which takes a lot out of usReal engagment is being attentive in…

Learn the hard wayNo free lunches, everything is earnedNoise outside, madness of a crowdAnother page turns, another day burnsIt’s easy, being Hindu in this countryThough the Indus flows for everyoneToday’s Bharat has become someone’sI’m apolitical, but it pains me to see the minority bullyingA big bang 2026, for a peaceful poetInsta opinions and trolly trepidationLoaned…

We arrived in AmbarsarThe city of my ancestorsHeaded for NakodarThe land of my forefathersWhat an adventurous time it's beenMeeting familyEating to our heart's delightDiscovering family historyPaying our respects to those passedAsking for forgiveness from our pastI wrote a poem for Amritsar the night we landedBut, like our thoughts, words, and actions, it evaporated in less…

EquanimityIs it the only truthEqualityIt is the unreachable nirvanaLove is a problemNot an emotionA series of decisionsTo let yourself go, and end up in someone else's fateFaith in yourselfIs it the only way outKarmic debtIt is the unknowable way of the worldI never believed in God beforeBut a recent spiritual trip through my family's rootsHas…

I see things unseenProbably due to the things I left unsaidWhen reality hitI couldn't tell up from downIt's my physiology nowRandom peeps get me goingBut I remain stoicIt's what keeps me groundedJobs are meant to give you identityMine helps me hide the truthThat I'm a cyberpunkLivin' off the juiceI write things to show youSo that…

The beginning of my strugglesThe end of my daysNights with insufficient dreamsShattered by realityI awake to a broken worldLate to the partyReady to toil for my soilA soul that's the sole in this worldWhat it's like to be bipolarIn a mad mad universeThis prompt is all I haveNothing else to giveGiven up on hopeI clutch…

I ain't perfectMy life has never been soThe half of it, you don't even knowFirst it was mental health, now it's divorceUnchosenCan I choose myself?Well some would certainly say soThen why do I remain rejectedThis is where I come to cryBitch and moanAll that I may sayI'm still aloneI don't know howTo look for or…

It came 21 years after the beginningWhen his Lordship said, allowedI was grateful and relieved, I bowedThe shackles of toxicity had been brokenWe celebrated, but I was muteBecause justice delayed, is justice deniedAnd I am yet to see justiceThe fairer gender rulesI will not enter into another, I have vowed79 cuts deeper, and only If…

With war clouds looming overhead,How do we find hope in this time?I feel devastated for those lives impactedWhile I sit here writingA few lines on my laptop.I cannot change the world—But I can change myself.It's a daily effort,With daily rewards—No bombs, no tweets, no missiles launched.Those who seek war will find it,Fighting to the bitter…