Makeshift Prisons

The bars appear as beautiful as flowers In a solemn and mournful bloom Watered by silent tears of lost time Watered by broken dreams Of broken hearts

The old dreams adopted the vibrancy of rust

Withered by harsh loneliness

And the pain of disappointment

But then behind bars

Lies the freedom to be nothing

But just be, and flow with the routine

Thoughts have become murky

Harbouring every vermin and pathogen

All ready to devour souls

Just Guesses

I guess the stars that I hoped 

we would lazily gaze at, 

one night when dreaming 

became too much, 

were nothing but a mirage 

I guess the many lonely days

I nursed the pain of your absence,

especially on nights 

I craved your warm embrace, 

were nothing but seconds ticking 

to oblivion 

I guess the dreams we had, 

can now ride our broken hearts, 

ferry us wherever it wants, 

as we search for each other 

among strangers we meet 

The Good, The Bad. The Balance

there will be good days, 

that will make think that you've 

finally figured it out 

there will be bad days, 

days that will test your resolve, 

faith, courage 

there will be days that 

make you feel stuck 

in a rat race 

there will be good, and the bad 

it might be a little difficult sometimes, 

to strike a balance and 

keep moving forward 

but, regardless of any outcome, 

take the next step

When Everything Changed

The vast blue dome above 
Conjured nothing but bliss 
In the air roamed untainted love 
The world was at peace 

All dreams were low-lying fruits 
There was no need for needless exertion 
We lived and loved to bits 
Because we had discovered our passion 

But then everything changed all of a sudden 
The world that we thought was pure 
Threatened to make us heathens 
We were never the same for sure 

An APP For Idlers

 TikTok is one hell of an app. If you have a few hours which you can dedicate to being totally and completely unproductive, then this app is here for you. TikTok has revolutionized how you can idle. It is more like a drug – in fact, it should be classified as a drug. A few minutes on TikTok will have you wondering how time flew by. And the best part of it is that you may never learn anything meaningful. 

It took me a while before I got around to downloading TikTok. I quickly signed up and began a blissful browsing experience. Each video would be more interesting than the last or almost always related to some videos I had watched elsewhere. For instance, I would watch Dr. Pimple Popper on YouTube when my mind suggests that something gross might be interesting. When I turned to TikTok much later, I would find the same gross videos perfectly lined up for me. I did not give much thought to it until the other day. 

Well, the answer lies in the terms and conditions we often blindly accept. We could sell our souls without knowing!!! It turns out that TikTok collects all your data from every possible source. It probably knows the type, make, and color of your underwear. That’s how serious that app is with your personal data. It even collects data on how you strike your keyboard. For what use? I do not know. 

I might say, which is just a wild guess, that TikTok does so to make its users addicted to the app. It is the same strategy that Facebook used. They needed a product that people would come back to it again and again like drug junkies. TikTok is using the same blueprint, only going a little further. Perhaps it is the reason why it has grown so popular around the world. 

One of the most remarkable things about TikTok is that China, where it was developed, restricts its use among its citizens. Chinese children use TikTok as a learning tool, not to showcase their posterior endowments or watch stupid pranks that have become the norm. It is alleged that China switches off the app at night. While the rest of the world becomes dumber and dumber, the Chinese are getting more and more intelligent. 

The only advantage TikTok has is that it has given people a chance to make a living. We recently saw TikTokers building mansions and driving. Well, you either are the consumer or the creator. When a product is free, there are high chances that you are the product. 

As for me, I plan to delete the app and resume life without it. I wouldn’t miss it at all. I need new ways to waste time now that the doctor has asked me to cut some beverages. 

The Moments You Feel Alive

There are those moments you feel most alive, 
Moments you never have to explain to anyone, 

because there have never been reasons to justify, 

because no one will ever understand them 

there are great moments only known to you 

as significant as the dawn to happy people 

as significant as a paycheck to a man in debt 

but nobody ever understands these moments 

in moments that you feel most alive 

let no one ever rob you of these moments

let no one ever belittle these moments 

they are your moments - guard them jealously 

Haunting Bygones

one day, in a distant past, 
you made the wrong turn, 
and despite knowing it 

you thought it would be fun 

down the road of oblivion 

nothing made sense 

except the ever beckoning abyss 

nothing's been the same thence 

in still moments the bygones 

haunt like a horror movie 

in its clarity nothing ever made sense 

you are stuck the unwelcome view