Only as far as I know™...

' Time and tide wait for no man', yet it all depends on us how it moves ahead. 'Butterfly effect', they say. Going through daily events around the world, sometimes I wonder if we ever had any control over anything that happens. It is like we are doomed to make the same mistake over and over again since we always fail to see the bigger picture or we deliberately tune ourselves off from reason. If you know me well enough, you know I'm an optimist at heart. But, maybe it is the corona effect and this is cathartic for me... Circles in Time Forever Scored Memories dull, Emotions swell Only permanence Sole soul knoll Round and round all rhymes go Wicked little gnomes do tarry       Gnawing gnawing knowing…   Circle time, Time, our stoic coach, Stumbling neophytes Round and round we go Blissful herd of ignoramuses Grazing high on Capital Sins   Merry souls would Always scurry bury bury Round and round go sacred carvings Circles in ...

What is Self? The capital ‘I’ That we hold on to, so dearly, Is there any ‘real’ coherent self That we vainly defend Self is but A will-o’-the-wisp A receding wave that never comes back A sandy desert which changes its contour every moment A butterfly that eludes our grasp A constant flux of ideas A construct To Fool……To Divide The Man …….The Woman The West...........……The East The Master .....……The Slave The White........……The Black The Self…........….The Other Self is not one, but many, Self is, but not steady, It evolves with every word we record, Every structure we make, Self is, but not... # Constructs # Self # Identity # Language @ Anu Maheshwari. First Published in 2006 in Panorama Magazine, A TakingITGlobal Publication.