VJ’s Weekly Challenge #100: Pause

VJ’s Weekly Challenge #100: Pause

( for someone who ended his life, he might have been desperate but what about his father and sisters and all relatives and friends, who were very proud of him)

perhaps

a timely pause

before taking the final leap

could have changed

your perspective

does your decision

to end your life

affects only you

or your dear ones

who put their faith in you

stand by you

accepting all you whims

supported you

you died only once

they will die

a thousand deaths

Relative article- https://satyaanveshan.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/sushant

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #108

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #108

‘Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave ‘

I know

I can’t change

anything in this world:

anything which is fake 

or

the attitude of people towards life,

towards the environment, poverty, religion

and their consumption of nature’s gifts

without sharing equally

I do not approve

either

nature’s law of death

why make people

in old age

vulnerable

why not they can keep

their innocence, fearlessness, and cheer

like a child

till the end

then let death come

with all its novelty

to carry on nature’s law

and allow them to  go slowly, gently, peacefully, graciously

down, down, down into the darkness of the grave

I wish I could say: 

and I’ve not resigned

but

what ho!

I have no power

no voice

no choice

though

I make a lot of noise

but here I resign.

What else can I do

except changing myself

 

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #94-

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #94

‘ Life was like a box of chocolates. You never what you will get.’ 

From- Forrest Gump

Life is more like a game of cricket.

However, you may seem to be 

efficient in batting

it throws a different ball each time

it has many surprises in its bag

you win or lose

depends on

how much confident, focused and balanced you are

still, it manages to surprise some times

Or

it’s a game of chess

between

life and death

and 

we are just

pawns

Daily Prompt- Fearless Fantasies

Daily Prompt –

How would your life be different if you were incapable of feeling fear? Would your life be better or worse than it is now? (Thanks, Nique Lektra, for inspiring this prompt!)

Fearless Fantasies

If I’m incapable of feeling fear, life would be very weird.  I may enter a house on fire to save someone, catch a live cobra, jump off a high story building, and play dangerous games.

I’ll not feel fear of death, loneliness, sickness, poverty, hunger, old age, powerlessness, committing crime, sin, everything which normal beings are afraid of.  Seems nice, no? No fear of darkness, cyclone, any disaster. 

Wouldn’t it be an abnormal life because fear is a mechanism brain is empowered for survival? 

Fear is that part of subconscious that makes you careful, reasonable and logical. It safeguards you from many disasters or committing crime or getting hurt. 

Is being incapable of feeling fear same as fearlessness?

In my opinion feeling fear, then trying to overcome it and be brave is better than being incapable of  feeling fear.

sketch by Raja Mukherjee

 

Five Sentence Fiction – Misunderstanding

Five Sentence Fiction- Misunderstanding.

Source

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TRAP

Sometimes a little misunderstanding can lead you to your death.

He mistook her beauty and fragrance as an open invitation.

Blinded by lust he entered the inviting soft flowery bed.

She started caressing him, at first smoothly, then her grip tightened,  enveloping him fully.

Before losing his consciousness he realized; the petals of the carnivorous brute have trapped him.

Prompts for the Promptless – Ep. 11 – Remake!

Prompts for the Promptless – Ep. 11 – Remake!

 Remake/ Change

If I have the power to remake

I’ll change everything which is fake

The attitude of people towards life

towards the environment, poverty, religion

and their consumption of nature’s gifts

without sharing equally,

which will lessen their strife.

Then I’ll remake the nature of law about death

Let death come with all its novelty

to carry on nature’s law

but

Let old age keep its

innocence, fearlessness, and cheer

like a child

it will make death less fearful and

make its impact mild.

Haiku- Idealogy

Dead should not be mocked

As sins go with their bodies

To grave or pyre

But

 Tyrants are condemned

Their misdeeds haunt forever

Even after death

Haiku- Death

Death lurking behind

Oblivious creature

End, unpredictable

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Tiger stalking

oblivious deer

death comes unnoticed