Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

Music/ Art
One of the greatest songs ever written

The Sea’s Up-North

Poetry/ Art
Sep 2006

Through the mist dissolved in the dawn,
The ship slowly moved on,
And strong faced she sailed,
Portraying an image- an image of the don..

Through hundreds of nautical miles of rough tide,
Bruised and battered her helpless sails,
But even in times of ordinarily pleading for mercy,
She never resorted to the anchors fate.



Well, this brave, bold life - did have its consequence, did play its part
For stripped she was of fellow mates
And alone she survived through the tidal waves..

Her courage was commendable,
Her strong-hold was admirable,
Her command was enviable,
Her state, however, unstable.

And one day when she moved far away from even my eyes..
She thought.. she realized..

And oh years later – hundreds of ships swarmed the shores..
Some that came together – and some all alone..

And I recognized this fate-sealed ship by her strong wearied sails..
And her unmistakably carved title – for “Ego” was her name..

The loneliness of our time

Religion/ Philosophy
To construct fancy words and well executed sentences which stand out as creative patterns of a lyrical genius is fairly a simple matter. But to integrate those words with the voice of Truth is getting difficult with the times. Almost incessantly, we are addicted to entertainment in some form or the other. The mind is so restless and so unaware with the passing moments that it is cast into a shadow of dullness which can be expressed only by some form of mere and hopeless routine work. And the passion for the small things in life is left so far behind, as we surrender before the pressures of the society.

It starts like a flash. When a person isn’t sure what should be done. And so in order to fix that the mind gets into a frenzy of finding a self constructed solution. Now what is important is the fact that the mind is always looking at the solution based on the knowledge it has acquired. And obviously, being incapable as it always has been, it finds a mere cover to the problem.  In other words, the problems like boredom, loneliness or insecurity are covered by a film of momentary pleasure – through the company of friends, the interaction through social forums, through a change in the state of mind by drinks and so on.

These are all nothing but forms and touch points of stimulating the so-called mind which is dull and bored with no vitality of its own. The mind has seen the how the world works and is rather afraid - The power, the politics, the constant ambition which takes a few to the top at the cost of others, the domination of the cunning over the helpless. And many a times the same individual sees both the sides of the coin. Yet, one fails to understand the entire process of life probably because one is not really ready to see the truth of what reality holds.

And so we continue in the same fashion we always have, without questioning the basis of our functioning. But every time we feel lonely, every time we have no idea what to do and every time we look at ourselves at the moment of dead space which occurs for just a split millisecond between the instant the mind stares blankly at the loneliness in the air and the instance when the mind races away to attach a solution to it through some sort of false imagery – At that very instant of dead space – is the flowering of Truth...