Naa was a regular guy. He did what regular guys did. Ate, slept, drank, and walked. Walk he did, up and down the town. As he walked he would think. Think thoughts and about thoughts. This is the story about the longest walk he ever took.
The sun was shining as Naa was walking. He looked around and saw the shops. One beside the other they all stood. All independent and different. He entered Dick's sporting goods, and he felt like he was in world of sports stuff. He entered the lingerie section of Macy's and all he could see for miles was stuff you wore under your clothes. His mind was jumping around. He looked at himself in his panties in the mirror and thought hmm... let me analyze this.
He walked on reflecting on his time in the shops. 'What does 'hard' mean' he thought to himself. Things get hard. Hard is hard. Hard is not soft. These sentences made him worried. 'Hard' he realized was not an easy word to define.
He walked on and realised he was inside a bubble. He thought that it was unusual, but he loved it anyway. He touched the sides of the bubble around him and they felt spongy to him. Instantly it came to him, this bubble was built in such a way that very soon he would know what hard meant!
As he walked he paused near a wall which was covered with numbers. He looked long and hard at these numbers. He realised in this case him looking 'hard' was different from him sitting on a 'hard' chair. He could see in his head now. Some one around him yelled the word, "HARD". Instantly he saw it. Then he knew. The numbers were overpowering him. He was unable to comprehend their meaning. But Naa was smart. He could see that nothing ever in the world, ever, ever, ever could deny 2 + 2 = 4. In fact when he looked around to see if this thought was true, he immediately found the evidence he needed. A poor old beggar was sitting by the road counting his money. 2 + 2 rupees = 4 rupees. Naa thought to himself, 'Ha if this old illiterate beggar knows this it must be true for all!'
He walked around in his bubble, in fact he would now move from one bubble into another. He wanted to teach everyone what he had realized. He yelled it out to everyone on the streets. "I am the King! 2+2 = 4!" They heard him and saw him. 'Aye' they said. He told them people on the streets from his bubble, "Its not 'aye', you must say 'yes'. DO IT!"
Bubble to bubble he walked realizing how everything was bubbles. How Naa wished others would see what he could see. A world full of decontextualized bubbles. How it gladdened his heart! His enlightenment seemed to light up the whole world. The fire in his eyes provided warmth to all around him. The words within in brain spilled out and formed buildings and factories.
He walked and walked and the words in his head spun around faster and faster. Just words and words and world of words. He decided to sit down for awhile and think. He sat down for oh so long. That was it. When Naa stood up again he was not the same. This was the day that Naa turned into a monster.
Then we sang...
Oh Monster Naa
You Stand so tall
Taller than the trees
You crush them all
Oh Monster Naa, Your head is heavy
Oh Monster Naa
You try to shoot us
We duck and hide
But your gun is rusted
Oh Monster Naa, Your head is heavy
Oh Monster Naa
You forgot your bubbles
You are trapped in them
Your universal troubles
Oh Monster Naa, Your head is heavy
13 October, 2009
22 September, 2009
Zara
My Beautiful Zara,
How my heart aches
To think of your pretty face
Those beautiful curls
You were always
So calm, so loving,
So helpful, so caring,
So serene, so sad...
Your eyes spoke for you
The sadness of the years
Teenage passed away
Troubled and confused
Memories of fights
Sadness and hurt
The failed attempts
At leaving this life
Suddenly there was relief
A new phase, a new age
An opening in
The web of sorrow
You saw the light
It made you glad
You reveled in it
You found love
Years of tears
Seemed to have left you
Confident and eager
You faced the world
But, it did not last
You gave away your love
You lost yourself
In this hard world
It started eating you
You tried to surface
Unable to find him
Who would hold you up
Alas, young Zara
You did not stay
Though you wanted
To find a way
You tried so hard
And yet you lost
You left sweet Zara
You are gone forever
Beautiful Zara
I still can see her
But it is not her, only
Reflections in the river
How my heart aches
To think of your pretty face
Those beautiful curls
You were always
So calm, so loving,
So helpful, so caring,
So serene, so sad...
Your eyes spoke for you
The sadness of the years
Teenage passed away
Troubled and confused
Memories of fights
Sadness and hurt
The failed attempts
At leaving this life
Suddenly there was relief
A new phase, a new age
An opening in
The web of sorrow
You saw the light
It made you glad
You reveled in it
You found love
Years of tears
Seemed to have left you
Confident and eager
You faced the world
But, it did not last
You gave away your love
You lost yourself
In this hard world
It started eating you
You tried to surface
Unable to find him
Who would hold you up
Alas, young Zara
You did not stay
Though you wanted
To find a way
You tried so hard
And yet you lost
You left sweet Zara
You are gone forever
Beautiful Zara
I still can see her
But it is not her, only
Reflections in the river
08 September, 2009
Empty Eyes
Swiveling emotions
Images of the past
They haunt me
Surround me
Leave me alone!
How deep is your wound?
Have you nursed it?
They linger
For a while
But it all expires
Move on now
To important things
Images of the past
They haunt me
Surround me
Leave me alone!
How deep is your wound?
Have you nursed it?
They linger
For a while
But it all expires
Move on now
To important things
31 August, 2009
A Little More Uncomfortable...
I want to make you feel
A little more uncomfortable
I want to tell you things
You don't want to hear
Can I express how I feel?
Will you be able to hear it?
Or perhaps you will be entertained
And I will take a bow
I want what I cannot have
I am offered what I don't want
I am tired of wanting
I know desires are fleeting
Let it come to me, why?
Do I deserve it?
Am I good enough?
Maybe just different
I just drowned
In self-pity
Did not mean to
Wanted to be above it all
Maybe I am
Stop now...
Not 'I', Not 'I'
Look outside
Not too deep?
Not now
Just be
No mind
No comments
From me?
From you?
From them?
I look now
Inside me
It has gone
It passed already
A little more uncomfortable
I want to tell you things
You don't want to hear
Can I express how I feel?
Will you be able to hear it?
Or perhaps you will be entertained
And I will take a bow
I want what I cannot have
I am offered what I don't want
I am tired of wanting
I know desires are fleeting
Let it come to me, why?
Do I deserve it?
Am I good enough?
Maybe just different
I just drowned
In self-pity
Did not mean to
Wanted to be above it all
Maybe I am
Stop now...
Not 'I', Not 'I'
Look outside
Not too deep?
Not now
Just be
No mind
No comments
From me?
From you?
From them?
I look now
Inside me
It has gone
It passed already
26 August, 2009
पुश एंड पुल
वाई डस लव पुश एंड पुल मी?
आई क्न्नोत कंट्रोल माइसेल्फ़
यु स्पिन मी राईट राउंड
एंड आई हेट यू फॉर इट
वाई डू आई लव व्हेन
आई वाँट टू हेट
वाई डू आई गो क्लोसर
व्हेन आई वाँट टू रन?
वात ड्राईव्स मी
वाई कांट आई स्टॉप?
आई डोंट वाँट टू हर्ट
नॉट मी, नॉट मी
आई विश फॉर हिस लव
कम टू मी
समय जस्ट पासिस
ही डस नॉट कम
हेल्प मी फाइट दिस
टू ओब्सर्व
एंड
लेट गो
आई क्न्नोत कंट्रोल माइसेल्फ़
यु स्पिन मी राईट राउंड
एंड आई हेट यू फॉर इट
वाई डू आई लव व्हेन
आई वाँट टू हेट
वाई डू आई गो क्लोसर
व्हेन आई वाँट टू रन?
वात ड्राईव्स मी
वाई कांट आई स्टॉप?
आई डोंट वाँट टू हर्ट
नॉट मी, नॉट मी
आई विश फॉर हिस लव
कम टू मी
समय जस्ट पासिस
ही डस नॉट कम
हेल्प मी फाइट दिस
टू ओब्सर्व
एंड
लेट गो
23 August, 2009
Tere Naina
मेरे दिल में जो अरमान है
पास आके झरा देखो ना
आब जो तुम मिलगये हो तो
फिरसे ना कहीं खो जा ना
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTpmvQxpljE
पास आके झरा देखो ना
आब जो तुम मिलगये हो तो
फिरसे ना कहीं खो जा ना
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTpmvQxpljE
19 August, 2009
Too
Is it right or wrong?
To feel
To feel too much
You tell me
The music swims
Through my ears
It is absorbed
Into me
I am still here
They are not
Perhaps...
Ankhon ka hai dhokha,
Aisa tera pyaar
To feel
To feel too much
You tell me
The music swims
Through my ears
It is absorbed
Into me
I am still here
They are not
Perhaps...
Ankhon ka hai dhokha,
Aisa tera pyaar
14 August, 2009
The White Sea
There was a breeze
I looked
I was mesmerized
I was seized
By the white sea
A white sea
A white sky
A silver streak
Across the sky
Along the horizon
Silver, I stare
At the white sea
I am pulled
Sucked into it
Through my eyes
My eyes alone
Into my body
And out again
There were projections
Ripples of explosions
Not heaven?
Another planet?
Where was I?
I did not get
But it was different
It was allowed to be
I was inspired
Become unique
To venture
The unnameable
The touch
So precious
I am grateful
White sea
You feel like all
And beyond me
I looked
I was mesmerized
I was seized
By the white sea
A white sea
A white sky
A silver streak
Across the sky
Along the horizon
Silver, I stare
At the white sea
I am pulled
Sucked into it
Through my eyes
My eyes alone
Into my body
And out again
There were projections
Ripples of explosions
Not heaven?
Another planet?
Where was I?
I did not get
But it was different
It was allowed to be
I was inspired
Become unique
To venture
The unnameable
The touch
So precious
I am grateful
White sea
You feel like all
And beyond me
18 July, 2009
A Farmer's Tale
As I sit and watch the street, I am engulfed by a heaviness. It is so thick and it penetrates my limbs. My eyes, they watch, listlessly. They watch the people hurrying by, hurrying to which end I wonder. I know they are hurrying to get to somewhere. To work perhaps, some hurrying home, some just, hurrying. They walk over the filth, breathe the filth, touch it and taste it as well. Yet they don't feel it? Or maybe they do. But I see it. I can feel it with my senses, it has entered me now... it has claimed my mind? Perhaps not yet. I look up at the grey skies and I know, they are grey not from rain. The smoke from my beedi rises up and mingles into the grey. I track the smoke with my eyes till it has disappeared. The faded smoke has turned into the grey skies. As I stare above, I cannot help remembering the blue skies under which I was once. I once was, someone. A farmer.
The sky it is not mine. But it is blue. The fields that surround me are green. It is true that they are mine, but are they really mine? Could they have ever been or remain mine? The fields belong to my, my earth. All that I could call mine, is first hers. I plough, I sow, I water and I tend. But I also reap, and I share. I am happy because I am blessed by my earth. She has given me her best, her all. I try not to want too much, but sometimes I think I do keep wanting. Mother will forgive me, wont she? Here come my children now, they seem happy. I see my little Lila, my little one, chasing the butterfly. She runs playfully, full of joy. She is as fresh as the farms themselves. The life that runs within her seems to penetrate every tree, every animal, and every stone and every inch of soil. I lift her softly and look into her bright eyes and I see in them, myself. I see the fields, the skies in her eyes as she playfully tugs at my beard. I leave her and watch her run around the open field. I see her now, running away from me, further and further away. It is getting hazy now and I cannot see clearly anymore. The green of the fields blurring and merging into the blue sky. The colours swirl and mix into an ugly grey.
I realised I am back on the street, in the city. The grey skies looking back at me, cheerlessly. I ask myself why I am here? Why this filth? Where are these people going? Why do they want to live here? Why would anybody want to live in these crowds? This place is filled with filth, corruption, and evil. It is filled with desires that can never be satisfied. What are they looking for? Why do they pray and steal? Why do they laugh and kill? Why must progress be punctuated by violence and sorrow? Once again I asked, why must I build this road?
There was never an answer. I looked down at my still glowing beedi stub and I saw once again, a glimpse. A memory of the red sun as it set over the fields while Lila and I watched. Slowly the light went out. The sun had set. All I could see now were my soiled feel, in torn slippers. I dragged myself out of my dreams and stood up. The road had to be built, it was not mine but its theirs. The people of the city.
The sky it is not mine. But it is blue. The fields that surround me are green. It is true that they are mine, but are they really mine? Could they have ever been or remain mine? The fields belong to my, my earth. All that I could call mine, is first hers. I plough, I sow, I water and I tend. But I also reap, and I share. I am happy because I am blessed by my earth. She has given me her best, her all. I try not to want too much, but sometimes I think I do keep wanting. Mother will forgive me, wont she? Here come my children now, they seem happy. I see my little Lila, my little one, chasing the butterfly. She runs playfully, full of joy. She is as fresh as the farms themselves. The life that runs within her seems to penetrate every tree, every animal, and every stone and every inch of soil. I lift her softly and look into her bright eyes and I see in them, myself. I see the fields, the skies in her eyes as she playfully tugs at my beard. I leave her and watch her run around the open field. I see her now, running away from me, further and further away. It is getting hazy now and I cannot see clearly anymore. The green of the fields blurring and merging into the blue sky. The colours swirl and mix into an ugly grey.
I realised I am back on the street, in the city. The grey skies looking back at me, cheerlessly. I ask myself why I am here? Why this filth? Where are these people going? Why do they want to live here? Why would anybody want to live in these crowds? This place is filled with filth, corruption, and evil. It is filled with desires that can never be satisfied. What are they looking for? Why do they pray and steal? Why do they laugh and kill? Why must progress be punctuated by violence and sorrow? Once again I asked, why must I build this road?
There was never an answer. I looked down at my still glowing beedi stub and I saw once again, a glimpse. A memory of the red sun as it set over the fields while Lila and I watched. Slowly the light went out. The sun had set. All I could see now were my soiled feel, in torn slippers. I dragged myself out of my dreams and stood up. The road had to be built, it was not mine but its theirs. The people of the city.
Sensations
Close your eyes they said
Feel, they said
The blackness
Swiveling lights
Darkness again
Cells, the nucleus, the web...
Before my eyes it all floated
On the nose they said
Concentrate, they said
Upper lip
Breath goes in
Breath goes out
Breath goes in
Breath goes out
Now cold, now hot
I feel it in my nose
I am diving now
Into the abyss
Dark
Falling
Hold me!
No one...
I fell down till I reached a bed
A bed of vibrations
Vibrations bursting out of my finger tips
My palms, don't touch them!
Or may be I will touch you
I will heal you
Come
Come to me now
Not yet perhaps...
It is moving now
Engulfing me
Vibrations are filling me up
I tremble at this new experience
I tremble and it hurts
Oh the pain!
Its not mine, or is it?
Images, my life, I gaze astonished
The pains
Sorrows
Sadness
All mine...
My body aches with my pains
'My' pains?
'The' pains...yes.
Gone
They are all gone I cannot believe
I looked for them
Now I feel
A density I have never felt
Am I hollow?
Or am I full?
Here they are again
Oh the vibrations!
Filling the emptiness, the denseness
Bursting out of my skin
I am rising
Boundaries are blurred
Is this me? Or that?
Sensations
Is all
Feel, they said
The blackness
Swiveling lights
Darkness again
Cells, the nucleus, the web...
Before my eyes it all floated
On the nose they said
Concentrate, they said
Upper lip
Breath goes in
Breath goes out
Breath goes in
Breath goes out
Now cold, now hot
I feel it in my nose
I am diving now
Into the abyss
Dark
Falling
Hold me!
No one...
I fell down till I reached a bed
A bed of vibrations
Vibrations bursting out of my finger tips
My palms, don't touch them!
Or may be I will touch you
I will heal you
Come
Come to me now
Not yet perhaps...
It is moving now
Engulfing me
Vibrations are filling me up
I tremble at this new experience
I tremble and it hurts
Oh the pain!
Its not mine, or is it?
Images, my life, I gaze astonished
The pains
Sorrows
Sadness
All mine...
My body aches with my pains
'My' pains?
'The' pains...yes.
Gone
They are all gone I cannot believe
I looked for them
Now I feel
A density I have never felt
Am I hollow?
Or am I full?
Here they are again
Oh the vibrations!
Filling the emptiness, the denseness
Bursting out of my skin
I am rising
Boundaries are blurred
Is this me? Or that?
Sensations
Is all
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