Diwali Haikus :)

                                                                                              - Hanoi'19

#1

The happy lanterns
Dangling atop every window
Weighing up human dreams
In the darkness of present reality...


#2

Colorfully crafted sweets
That tingle sudden urges
Causing reckless indulgence
from childlike guilelessness

#3

Dusty Diwali cleaning
a chance for newer beginnings
collapse of tangled webbed dynasties
untangling deep buried memories...

#4

The ritual of Rangoli
adorned with asorted shades
and hours of happy bantering
of women and their desires...

#5

Much ado about lights
and illumination
Another attempt to brighten the outside
Or faintly coping with blazing lights of thy within?

Of Avoidance and Comfort

                                             Photo credits: Most talented - Vandu 🎔🎔🎔
                                       
 

I read these staggering stories
with excerpts chained in order
of life and death
horror and peace
wins and losses
and many mournful deceits

I wonder how we tread that passage everyday
loaded with shame and courage
grief and acceptance
hope and despair
all at once?

We merely glance through them
carefully avoiding the deeper dive
of both pain and joy
because 'surplus can kill..'

I wonder how our bodies juggle
between breathing in the resentment
and out the awe & glory
dancing on this auto-rhythm...

Is switching in-between these states easier
than containing with a hazy sense of self?
How skillfully we conceal from our fragmented being
by swinging through these staggered pieces...

As long as

                                              -Hospital Cave,  Cat-ba Island

As long as you look the way I see you…

I trust you.

As long as you see the way I see things…

I trust you.

As long as you detest because it hurt me…

I trust you.

As long as you smile because I think it’s true…

I trust you.

As long as you fail because I think you deserve it…

I trust you.

As long as you lament because I think I do not deserve it…

I trust you.

Thus, I trust you as long as,

Your perceptions

Your complexes

Is all an extension of myself… 

But

When you disrupt my trust,

I am coerced to confront

The self- broken and demeaned,

From which I gleefully escape,

When I try to see you like me

Broken and demeaned.