Darkness......

White as doves people initially appear,
but time and interaction swiftly makes the veil disappear.
Vengeance and frustration creep out of the blue,
but for happiness there has to a clue.
"Love" has become synonymous with flesh and lust,
hearts are just structures of filth and dust.
Divorce and infidelity has became such a part and parcel of human life,
that this legalized prostitution is also called as "Husband and Wife".
The long legs of money have kicked innocence into the bins,
and "god" has been made a mere coolie to wipe away the sins.
"Freedom" and "will" are just words that appear to stand tall,
but the chains of "society" and "order" have slowly bound all.
Invisible crowns have taken control of our heads,
for them we are ready to take even snakes and scorpions to our beds.
Sun takes away the darkness of the night,
but what about the darkness that holds our souls tight??

The Walks...

Walking is one my most favorite stress busters. A week back I walked from college to adyar depot in the evening. During such lonely walks, I start to think about things in my life to forget the length of the path.The highlight is that the matters start to flow by your mind at a fast pace without inspiring any deep thinking as the focus is partly on the road as well, but as time passes my mind takes grip of some matter and starts to analyze it through various different angles.I became so engrossed that for a moment I forgot the purpose of the walk. Things which have been on the stand by for a long time start to emerge center stage , get a bit revised and return to their place. The major highlight is the past recaps which happen on seeing certain posters, events, shops etc, sort of relive the whole event and feel the same emotions whether envy or anger or joy to an extent much more then the original one due to progressive increase of that emotion with time. Then comes the thoughts of things I want to be or i wanted to do in the past, during this particular walk I thought about reliving my college life, things i wanted to do like beat up certain people, understanding some friendships to a better extent, being stable(thats a big change) and so on. Slowly the thoughts vanished and i started to notice people on the road, all serious faces eager to reach their destinations. Frustration dripping from majority of the  faces, ready to pick up a fight to cool off their anger. others were on cloud nine, showering their happiness all around without being aware of it while some were puzzled by some problems or thoughts. The thing i felt that people were so engrossed in their anger, problems, depression that slowly the happiness and joy from their lives was getting sucked away and the road betrayed this fact very easily. One more interesting fact was that the people on the road were divided not on the basis of caste but on the means of transport, each level was so involved in envying and making his way to the next one that they forgot to enjoy the moments. "Higher level" people hardly respected anyone, and people who had made their way to these levels loathed the lower levels to the same extent. There were people who wanted to make it to the top level no matter(a sort of restlessness) what while others had lost faith and made no attempt to improve(they could not), one close look and everything was like an open book because like me they were also thinking all these matters.The things I have mentioned seem very vague because thats how these are , and moreover sometimes things are better off in a vague fashion.