Category: Creative writing
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Posterity — Why Should I Care?
Attributed mainly to Groucho Marx, the quote: “Why should I care for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?” has turned into quite a philosophical debate. The two little questions, if read merely on the surface, make a lot of sense. Why should it matter to me what happens to the universe and its…
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Cannot Engine
98.5% of our DNA is junk, it is the rest that makes me a clunk. 5% of the Universe is visible to us whatever remains is darkness. And then there is sunlight 1% used by plants to live and photosynthesize. Even much less of it becomes biomass moving through the cycle of life. Plenty of sperms and menstrual blood go down the drain with faeces and worms; remnants of Mama’sdelicious…
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The Pit
“For a good 5 years I was so depressed I couldn’t complete a single chore. Just getting out of bed was an accomplishment for me. And the worst of it was I didn’t look ill and so nobody would understand what I was going through. I mean how do you justify being physically healthy yet…
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How to Trust?
He, the love of my life,Said to me the other night,‘You do find other men attractive, right?’ ‘Like you might desire other women?’I asked a question in return.‘Yes,’ he smiled, ‘we all have our demons.’ But I told him no and he was baffled.Was something wrong with me?My feathers were ruffled. I pondered and realized:‘They…
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Random Poem
Random Poem (28–09–2020) I hate life, as all my friends will tell you, my lover will vouch for it so and my family has an inkling too. But it is the mundaneness of it, that I hate. This never-ending monotony, that even when it breaks, resorts to its routine of innumerable centuries That is what I find exhausting,and tiring and burdensome.This nothingness,…