CHANGE WE NEED

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. -Mary Engelbreit

Change is inevitable, change is unpredictable, change is permanent. In this world of temporary existence where life, death and the in-between is all ephemeral, it is change which is truly eternal, and yet it is change which is the most difficult to accept, to imbibe and to believe.
Human nature has battled change right from the very start to its ultimate end, the post-natal wailing of a newborn evicted from its' secure womb to the soul shattering grief associated with the vacuum, death inscribes on our consciousness are all forms of resistance to unavoidable change. Within the plethora of mixed reactions towards this ubiquitous phenomenon lies another characteristic which is extremely common but virtually unknown to the masses, the inability to recognise the need for change, whether voluntary or involuntary, sometimes with and sometimes without purpose. This simple, albeit significant trait has led to catastrophic consequences in our lives, sadly without realisation of the cause and ignorant acceptance of the effects. Humanity has learnt to live with change, to handle it, often control it and rarely even understand it but that is as far as we have reached. Change has been adopted by us but can it be absorbed by us, can it be made an extension of our reality rather than a myth which is proven true in the approaching future.
The question which is inherent to this dialogue is - Are we ready to recognise the Change We Need? Be it politics, society or relationships, we are disconnected from the stark reality that change that is required. There are a million examples where an individual has complained about mismanagement, accused others of misconduct and blamed the entire system that prevails. This misleading kaleidoscope of apparent dissatisfaction is considered to be recognition while it is just expelled frustration. Resultant inactivity has repeated the same cycle of problems without solutions, not because we do not want to better our lives but because we are unable to judge what is the requisite treatment or the required solution. The reality is that we do not want to recognize the change that we need because that would be a step towards accepting that change which is required and thus render us as adaptable beings, which again is against our introverted protest to change. If change we needed was actually implemented and utopia achieved, we would be stranded in an alien environment where our previous methods would not deliver results and our stratification in society where more gets more and less gets less would be entirely blurred past recognition. Human nature has never allowed us to achieve anything easily, why should recognition of change differ.
Essentially as Mary Engelbreit said it, change is not only an external event occurring around you but also an internal strife, constant and conflicting, which has equal measure of importance as to your surroundings. This assists us in concluding that we should project ourselves not only to need a change but to be the change we need.

EvenT Horizon

Twilight’s envelope on the threshold of exchange,
Moulding my destiny as the minutes go astray,
No escape, no turning back from this apocalyptic ring,
Chronology descends as conscious existence fades,
Algorithms fail and the insanity of abandon unveils,

Altar centric eyelids pried open in proximity,
The lashes ripped off in merciless unison,
Seared tear glands parched beyond repair,
Torn membranes where momentarily eyelids resided,
Iris implosion assures darkness unleashed forever,

Skin, stretched a second ago, stripped away,
Blood coloured attachments donated without cause,
Benign cognitive senses impaired beyond registration,
Dissolving strands of consciousness floating in amniotic miasma,
As the skeletal cocoon restrains against the cerebral coup de grace,

Systems, machinations, processes and probabilities drop,
As spinal extraction is succeeded by cranial distortion,
Life, force, light, gaia, thought, existence, flash, me; all converge, all diffuse,
Ebbed, effete, pale and drained, flatlined drone announcing defeat,
Final spark sputtered that defined the oncoming cessation,

Then my eyes split wide open, light, vibrating as the body shuddered and adjusted,
Reality, feeling alive bounded by promises of never sleeping nor dreaming,
Enclosure was the blurred terrace, blackhole was a flared up crimson sun,
Sleeping was the expansive city, surrounded by a twilit horizon,
Incredulity bordered alongwith relief, on the chimerical capacities of delusional beliefs,

The clock struck out, the swansong spell broke, the universe diminished as death prevailed,
Neither light nor sight succeeds and thus the tyrant, the sorcerer - Event Horizon has yet, never failed.

R E V E L A T I O N

This Silence is piercing, blaring, evoking,
Its been this way as far as i can recollect,
Shadows lurking free,beside and within,
The entire world floating as I stand still,
mortality beckons my insane individuality,
as i try and fathom this unreality.

Plateglass surrounds my listless existence,
shapeless forms flit from beyond this non-existent wall,
Been without for times, far and long,
Seeking vindication in the extremities of myself,
as existence beyond, i have never felt,
Only reflections of loneliness circulating within.

Infinity tied down to this moment,
Flailing to break through and feel you,
Shield skins struggling as they fail to breathe,
Asphyxiated mind juggling the same questions,
Aren't we all the same then why am I so different,
Perception has not arrived, along with answers.

Years break into weeks whose fragments are weak,
These days are bleak and their hours are small,
Minutes are lost as these seconds are found,
Transition parades parts of our lives away,
Moments resonate as they adsorb into yesterday,
Yet realizations evade as they submerge again.

Stifled expression incessantly waits within,
Empty cities reverberate with sonorous impatience,
Renaissance is near, my instincts are the seers,
Piercing silence finally settles to whistling,
Ages that eloped with precious possibilities,
have finally invoked the evolutionary understanding.

Strength in the bonds are slowly failing,
Effete mind reeling under the astronomical truth,
Humanity is the cause while I am just human,
Perceiving it all wrong, I donned confusion,
Wishing to be alone i shunned social fusion,
Clarity of thought has finally come about.

To be with, is to be human, change -within us, not without,
The glass has shattered, the shackles are free,
Silence is silent and shadows have their escorts,
Alas, that world in motion now has stopped,
Feelings rush into the vortex of my self,
connections are planted, the universe is set,
As I bid goodbye to the insignificant presence of me,
and embrace the ultimate revelation of We.

~ SlitS ~


Release me , n ill be ur unchained melody
restrain me , n ill be ur merciless enemy
refuse me , n ill be ur haunting memory
revive me , n i ll be the very slits from which u see

Spare me , n ill be ur obsequious slave
enSlave me , n ill be ur evil masquerade
strip me , n ill be ur dislodgin dream
strangle me , n ill be the very slit from which u shall scream

Trust me , n ill be ur divine protector
train me , n ill be ur sublime projector
tie me , n ill be ur naked greed
touch me , n ill be the very slits from which u all shall bleed..

The Session

Sunlight drapes the cathedral's windows ,
and thus gleams his wand and the strings ,
still he makes not a move or a stir here ,
and waits for his cue which is his alone .
The brilliant rays snake across the pews ,
and as the winner of them envelops his love ,
he gyrates in the air with no rhythm spared ,
and bliss swims from wall to wall to all ,
as the melodious music swings thru warmth ,
and peaks in love , returns to hate , turns to fear ,
and with overtones of sadness ends in belief ,
reverberatin in the hearts of all fortunate there ,
who hid in all corners from this poor child ,
just to hear a human's endless life in a song ,
a wordless opus of one maestro's ingenuity ,
a wave of feelings which know all languages ,
a deaf boys cruel gift for his love of sound ,
a violin's cry of gratitude to his player,
who created his voice still never heard his love ,
and so his footsteps left the empty church ,
never to return because the dawn had denied him again ,
and so they all waited and waited for that violin ,
day after day, until they found the magnanimous violin ,
crucified to the church's steeple with these words etched on it

... " Ears have gone by but the session never ends ,
... Come to my world , feel the ears and years blend. "

From the Ashes

Travesties of life shot me down , but i am still alive , u cant bring
me down , i can still see the light
darkness may be the bearer here within , but inside me an ember
smolders , broken n tattered i may seem , but shall break all those
boulders
this moment may seem too long , this pain may seem too strong , all
that i did seems too wrong yet somethin shivers to break alive
a vision , a star , a ballad is born this time , hope has risen n so
shall I , waves have crashed and the Rebirth m I..

UNREALITY

Can you really see what i can't see ,
Does anybody become what i want to be,
Is there another me who's not like me
Why can't we all sense this .. Unreality
Truth can never really lie to me,
Lies can never be truer than truth indeed,
My warmth just ends up freezing me
Save me, still stuck in this .. Unreality
Monday is not a day lesser than Tuesday,
My way is your way just try see it my way,
Five shapes shape up as shapeless sheets
Snake your tongues taste this .. Unreality
How come I can't feel my own shadow,
Just give me back my apology,
Lets all sit together and be alone
This seems real like this .. Unreality
I'm sorry if your feelings hurt me,
We'll make up with all the breakups i see,
Stand up , for once i want to see u sitting
Water, shallow or deep, Oh this .. Unreality
Look behind the mirror just keep facing it,
Love a person whom u hate for loving me,
Feel ashamed , undress ashamed , fuck ashamed
Ashamed is my name in this .. Unreality
Close ur eyes so that i can see u,
Speak out now to hear my words,
Stretch your hands to feel my greed
Give me everything that you entirely need,
Open your mouth and swallow yourselves please,
Because in this Real world, Really you don't deserve my .. Unreality