Thursday, January 7, 2021

THE SMELL OF DEAD ORCHIDS

 First Post of 2021...

The sad truth is not the ones that harm us, it is those which reveals the real us. Hope wasted like a fine wine, drinking with the oil and the lust of candle. We yell and smile at the hook and the fish; little do we know we need fire to cook. What if there is a designed destiny, what if there is an umbrella to every rain that falls off season. We walk the road, we look at our shoes, we cry or we feel happy either for the road or for the shoes, never for the two at once. We are but little being appreciating the beauty of the universe but the universe does not give a rat care of what we feel. The oak tree does not have a smell to claim its worth, the rose has a smell but when it is often plucked we find a refuge at the altar of the Zion, not the zoo of course.

 

We have but a sense of ownership and are protective of what is ours. We have immense love stored in us but we are busy to know what we have. In the shores of the unwanted people, we try to establish our worth. Come today, go tomorrow, listen to no one, listen not to your heart. The screams from the street cracks the glass of our windows. Pay now, pay forever, fix now and they will ask you how you fixed the work at display, ring a bell, and toast a drink. We have so much of what is redundant; we care more about it than the ones created through our sweat and ideas.

 

In despotic times, we will find ourselves killing each other or might just end up killing ourselves. Clown down; clap sounds and the butterfly’s rage. The clock says, it’s ten o’ clock. What’s that? Country guns hidden under pillows of hope, breakfast so cold. What we have is nothing, what we want is everything. Never, never, will there be a sun; the moon will be darker yet brighter. Village doors are closed and the winter winds blow. Ravens are white, black is but our hearts. The stain, yes the stain…let me cry, sob, sob. Amen!

 

 

Thursday, December 24, 2020

This Cult of Christmas

 



What have we achieved? 

Electric Lights to hide our darkness.

 What have we focused on? 

Fire to keep our cold hearts warm.

 What are we discussing about? 

Recipes for the perfect Christmas dinner.

 What keeps us happy? 

Gatherings better with boozing?, new clothes,

meeting the ones we love and avoiding the ones who disgust us. 

 What are we praying for? 

Money for a better year ahead.

  What is our definition of blessing? 

Getting expensive gifts.

What have we got by defining a hedonistic life.

Christmas is the day like any other day to thank God the Father for sending His only Begotten Son to save us. 






Friday, October 23, 2020

BEYOND CHALK AND BLACKBOARD

 

While looking for solutions to give uninterrupted online classes, we hope the school authority will not forget to renovate the girls’ toilet,

While debating on the New Education Policy, we hope the issue of bully, the importance of having a school counsellor will be in the menu of the school,

While giving importance to career counseling, we hope talks on sex education, teen pregnancy, porn and drug addiction will not escape from the window,

While bringing out dress and manner codes for the students, we hope the crime of ‘Rape!” is not taken lightly putting on dos and don’ts only for the female students.

While organizing religious retreat events, we hope ethics, morality and law are discussed simultaneously.

While highlighting the syllabus, we hope the future importance of that ‘very topic’ is let known to the students. 

Lastly, irrespective of whether 'excess teachers' in Nagaland is a myth or reality, this state deserve teachers who teaches because they have passion for it and not just because they have had not other career options. 

There is much and many more but the charcha is beyond chalk and blackboard

 

 

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