Circles in Time

' 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 time

Forever etched

On stones

Grave stories they tell

 

Circles in Time

mutable permanence

The ring, mandala, ensō,

Hecate’s Wheel

The same

Eternally unabating

Waltzing rhythms,

Energies synergies

 

We are everywhere

And nowhere

We learn unlearn

Our social memories fickle

Our existence,

Mere spec in time

Condemned to wallow in reprise?

Pic Source: https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-illustration-mandala-circle-decorative-spiritual-indian-symbol-lotus-flower-round-ornament-pattern-vector-illustration-image71462453 

Self

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.