Tag: truth

Journey with truth

I was five
high on school but naive
everyone around preached
"always say the truth"
and i did..
i was pulled up
and warned to ask before saying
then i tried lying
was caught
a tight slap came from the left
i understood silence was best kept

Came in teens
managing home rules and hormones
i thought i knew what it means
truth was now the last resort
but i tried keeping it the first
i was roughed up for saying it
tagged dumb for not playing it
then i tried lying
it worked
i found ways at least sometimes if not always


Came adulthood
home, office, friends,neighbors were managing me
i had no time to figure out truth
suddenly peace became a bigger thing
and i gave up both truth and lie in the bargain
now i only say what others wanna listen
no one pulls me up 
and i remain sane

Truth

Truth has versions,
water once clear,
is coloured by many immersions,
of bias,
of emotion,
of preconceived notion.

Truth has nothing to show,
except itself,
it doesn’t need a mirror to delve,
it’s the people standing at the same window,
see the same light,
but wording it differently.

Every truth has a wish,
to be spoken as it is,
without any misuse,
without making news.

But from the moment,
it is said for the first time,
it starts losing life,
to different persons,

Truth just dies leaving versions.

Truth – real or a claim?

they claim it’s real,
then try to prove it,

they claim it has a distinct colour,
then use it as water
giving the colour their tongues carry,

they claim it’s bitter
then sugarcoat it for use,

they claim that at the end it triumphs,
then fall short of patience,

they claim it’s fearless,
then hire lawyers to defend it,

they claim it’s the only one,
then hardsell versions to the world,

Maybe truth is just a claim
and not a fact….

Numbers

from salary to score,

even if it’s too much, you want a bit more

from leftover to gone by,

you are left trying to relive and plan wise,

from owning to oweing,

they are a seesaw, falling and growing,

from zero to infinity

being on the wrong end of the list can challenge your vanity,

from lucky to manipulated

the bubble can elate you or make you feel cheated

you can never mount the present

if you don’t learn to forget the count sometimes and resent…

the habit to calculate

for someday, numbers will stayput and calculations will fail

accurately measured tides will outperform the sail,

your ship of dream will drown,

but you will have stay calm,

and remember …

Life is beyond numbers….

Online shopping

A click and it moves to cart,

Another click and it lands up at home,

And

Temptations blindly dance learning these two steps,

Too many picks,

Too many offers,

Amid ego and budget murmurs,

Consumed by the urge to try something new

Taking flipkart, snapdeal, amazon onboard,

I hoard,

I let my cart overflow,

I take EMI’s, the credit card balance swells up,

If your greed is hopping,

Owning almost every new thing available

Then welcome to online shopping…..