Scattered All Over

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Hole in my soul; Crap in my mind

What do you do when you have lost your soul; when you lose your sense of purpose, your reason for existance...

Do you shut out all emotions and tactlessly push through your daily chores or do you try to re-orient yourself; try to find the silver lining... maybe you could just smile and forget everything that ever happened.. let a different personality take control...

Have you ever played a computer game where you could save before a hard mission and replay the level till you get it right... Every time you mess up all u need to do is press Ctrl+Q and then Ctrl+L... If time is the fourth dimension, then why cant we rewind... But given the choice would you rather rewind, or fast-forward... Do you really want to change who you are, who you have become... or would you much rather get it over with... Skip to the end of the book... and take comfort in reading:

"The End!"

self sacrifice or self indulgence?

Is “true love” this emotion of being ale to subjugate one self for the survival and happiness of another given the guarantee that the same gesture will be reciprocated? is that selfishness in itself.. Seeking for self-preservation by giving it….?

Monday, November 27, 2006

Love Vs. Feminism

I will never be like my mum..
and steam rice and wash dishes
starch shirt collars and beat clinckled towels..
I told my self
since the age of 10..
when the first inklings of feminism
seeped through the crack of my skull..

From then on I huffed and puffed..
Colour coded my notes..
Practiced double time for my debates
and worked all night to win some silly vote by 2 points..
simply because i was running against a guy..

The world was unfair..
the world was imbalanced
if there were 51% women
why the hell are we so subjugated?...
The cat calls urked me
The bus groping internally shattered me
The after 6 curfew imprisoned me.
and all that wrath...
all that hurt..
all that pain..
I carefully harboured..
and lovingly nursed
like stirring a pot of bubbling red tomato pouri..
I didnt let go..
and bit by bit
like a heating red hot iron..
my anger grew..
my frustration balooned...

and the only way to vent it out
was to be better than ALL the men
to beat them at it all
and to shout slogans at anti-domestic violence rallies on the few free weekends
and wear white bands decrying the "imbalance of power"

I carefully avoided the kitchen..
and never learnt the complex manouvres of a high-end washing machine..
simply because all that represented servitude..
hogging for some pig of a man..
washing his socks and arranging them in pairs..
according to the right colour and day of the week..

but....
was it that I hated?..
didn't mum do that out of love as oppsed to obligation?
maybe it was something else..
something else i'm trying hard to block out....
erase from my mind..

maybe it was the nights she cried..
the times she blew into a rage..
and used me as a poison vessel to channel her frustrations...
deep in my heart i know she wasn't happy...
and HE was the effigy i burnt in my mind...
as the cause for all that suffering..

maybe i am wrong...
maybe i am right..
but how would I ever know..
my little mind could not grasp the intricacies of their complex tango..
but the deep grooves of love and hate..
for the most important man in my life
wreaked havoc in a tiny heart
and then spilled over...
to blot my view
of the whole of "man" kind..

Men were toys..
to be used and dished out..
to control and get things done..
because the moment you surrender..
they'll break each bone..
and leave you shattered........

So a fortress I built..
around my little heart...
with misnormers of feminist bricks..
cemented by bad childhood memories..
my heart was icy..
my consciounse numb..
as I shattered honest hearts..
with a cold touch of a medusa..

but then........
a fresh wind blew..
and a small creeper..
firmly took root.
in a tiny spot
that still had a bit of compassion left..

and bit by bit it grew...
creeping through the sordid bricks
of hurt, mistrust and belligerence..
cracking and chipping...
until they fell..
one at a time...

A fresh ray of hope is warming the trapped little heart...
a fresh breeze is threatening to uproot the grey cobwebs of a cynical mind..
as the "Serious" boring unkept woman
who thought abstract and planned to save the world
is walking with a lightness of spirit.
and and a happy skip skip..

but then...
feelings are.. but trascending mists..
that cloud our minds..
and slowly dissipate.....

so I wait..
with unpracticed patience...
with expectation in my eyes..
for a happier tommorow..
or a blissfull mirage........

Monday, November 13, 2006

A midsummer night's dream

its like a midsummer night's dream
when you luv someone
and someone else loves you
and your tears for one
trickels down onto the other's shoulders....

to luv is joy
to be luved is bliss
yet to luv and to be luved
at a single moment
is to dance to the beat
of your tuk-tuking bones
as they smash
under the boulders of rejection and guilt