Dune Song

Sea gulls cry
And my silence, somehow falls
In the same frequency

Fascinated by snow
Tropical woman
Eating crushed ice

Letterbox from heaven
Where did all the pen friends go ?
Snail mail to no mail

Sitting on one leg
A crane deep in thought
Kerala story

Today the wind carries
The faint smell of kerosene
Weird comforts

Broken glass
Patiently waits
For unlucky feet

Dandelion life –
The privilege of being
Insanely helpless
And not epsteined

Believers –
After Hitler was bad enough
After Epstein
Criminal

To be –
An invisible sniper
Who can teleport

Raw nerve
Purple against pale green
New leaf

When you have spare time
Scroll the umpteen twitch channels
That shows an empty room 24/7
With a woman walking in between
Now and then
Doing no talking
No nudity
Hardly any visibility
Be surprised
At the number of subscribers
To that channel
And wake up
Boredom is the real epidemic

Tiktok, reels, shorts .. what not ..
In this era of short attention spans
Maybe you think
I should be grateful for your attention
Sole audience to my channel
You think I'd be delusional enough
To think it love

How did I get here ?
What came first ?
The bad experiences
Or the weak constitution
Another chicken and egg situation !

Invisible
To ships moving away from
One horizon to the next
Rooted in time
Another lighthouse
Shapeshifting in the fog

Boredom inflates
My existential crisis
I pray for enough discomfort
To keep me aware
And motivated

High strung
On the verge of ringing
Ear canals echoing
Erratic sleep patterns
Continues uninterrupted
Doomscrolling relaxation techniques

Mahaan banne ke chakkar mein
Hum insaan banna bhoolgaye

~

Father Sergius

Open kitchen
The stench
Of leftovers

Black black humour
Of a dark dark fumer
Killed my little drummer

Nobody cares
I sing myself
A lullaby

A stitch too close
Breaks open
The seam

Busted balloon
It's sad face
Hangs on a tree

If only
I could be conveyed
In three letter word vocabulary
I would gladly do so
Instead I wait and wait
For words
To make sense of me

Awareness blooms
Once in twelve years
On blue moon nights

Patent leather
The snake woman flaunts
Her human purse

Forget speaking
Don't you dare breathe
A thousand miles from me

Beach walk
The evening skies
Ablaze with anger

Karma
Mourns in silence
What has it come to mean ?

Lining her lace
With dead ladybugs
The black widow

Free rain
Stop with the chem trails already
Nature whimpers