This was on the caste based riots in Mumbai in 2018...

Darkness and Light series

Darkness and light

The light was always there

Darkness has just covered

The brightness

The dark rays

Covered the light

Giving an illusion

That light is over

It took

Time and patience

And perhaps an eternal hope

To unearth the hidden light

On change and changing

At times

I even befriend the darkness

Knowing well

The light

Lies hidden

In the arms of darkness

Time’s up

The time to show raw power

To weaken our resolve

To reduce us

To just Figurines of our physical self

To put us in pigeon holes

In fact to create those round and square holes

For different sizes

Is really up

To put us through

Lot of ordeal

Seen and Unseen

For fruits

That are commonplace and ordinary

Yet seem extraordinary for us

That time now will be far behind

As the timekeepers and clocks have changed

Darkness and Light series

The Eclipse

 The daily eclipse that shadows the light .

 It darkens all that is bright .

The eclipse of ignorance and hate .

 Of anger and vices .

That eclipse of the mind .

Robs humanity from humankind .

These eclipses are a mere play .

Of shadows that have no substance

yet keep substance at bay .

The sun always shines bright in that time and space .

Where the light of knowledge and positivity is ahead in the race .

For any kind of eclipse is there any room ?

Where the light of kindness and bliss sparkles in full zoom

(inspired by the recent eclipse on 27th July 2018.. but is an eclipse really  so rare ??)

A different God

A different God for men and a difficult one for women .

The one for women needs lot of propitiation.

Probably they need a different God

As they live in their world their own Nation .

Men tread at times on difficult paths

They did look needy .

But had it easy many times .

Frankly it wasn't so heady .

With the help of many Gods .

The walk for women to win and propitiate is on .

Even as the Gaps and differences Continue and new ones are born .

With these differing gods and difficult paths

 Own up

The pain and embarrassment to be on your own .

 To walk hand in hand but at your own pace .

Here the seeds of dissent as they say are sown .

For A woman to own a space in her own mind and outside of it .

Sounds so simple .

Yet doing it gnaws her  bit by bit