Red and round, hiding behind the clouds, the sun exited towards the unkown. The presense of the bygone is still felt within. Light breeze deliberately prompted me to look at the greyish-blue sky mildly kissing the somber yellowish flares of the setting sun, but my mind-paralysed.

Below lies the city, where houses seem box-shaped, cars swarming like ants, multi-storied buildings reflecting small peaks of human desires and flat wide bare brown surface in foreground exemplifying the bottom of human affection. City echoes how manufactured we’ve become. I recall few lines of Beer-

..To safeguard ourselves, protect our homes, care for and educate our families, we have all grown into large and powerful pieces of social machinery which suddenly seem not so much protective as actually threatening.

Body-weightless, emotions- grounded, reflecting-within, observing-what eyes can possibly see. Figthing a war within, I needed a place where I could do nothing, but “think”. On 15th floor, thankfully, lone eagle is my only companian. But then, sounds of stone crushers and motors rag me back from my melancholic silence. The heart-beats of machines hum in my ears- “how much more is needed?” Gazing at things, I’m thinking how much we have evolved since “we are”. Crazily burgeoning city roads, men competing time, protective pale buildings looking interesting to human hearts or may be the choices have shrinked. I flip to few forgotten principles- our souls simply live in our body, but merely body is not what we are all about; I feel pity on thyself.

Slowly, lights in the city are now getting switched on and moments of silence are slipping through my fingers. Moments, that never repeat and those which seem to be easily forgotten, sometimes stay in the meme pool.. Times, testing my instincts inside-out, momentarily, have been replicating behaviors of moments. Days, aggregating from these times have been such that I’ve been left to choose bad options from a pool of worse. But, I hope that this systemic state fades away soon,  just like the obscured rays of sun this evening.. May today be peace within.

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