Fruits

This city opens up to me again and again
Each time I say a goodbye
Sunlight so harsh and hot
Suffocating, engulfs me
There is magic floating in the air, right above this layer of pollution that controls
My breaths and life. I’m five years less, today

There’s a platter in front of me
Fruits of different sizes.
Banana, strawberry, mango, kiwi
Each bitten by different teeth.
There’s so little left to eat.
Yet, I must eat.

The fruit is the same. But I reduce in size.
An ant. This is the whole world.

Fruits of labour. Fruits of love.

Cities need to change. Fruits need to change. For my mind needs better.

I need better.

~insight07

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A day gone by

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Water spirals and breaks

Under the pressure of the pebble;

A piece of Earth that was forced on it.

It accepts its heavy weight

Within its brimming chest,

As the pebble goes deeper,

Deeper still.

Until it has reached the very bottom,

To become a part of the new Earth,

A new air it must learn to breathe and take

From the unforgiving sea.

Sometimes I am the pebble

Sometimes I am the sea

A constant tug of war for oxygen, for life

Within me, around me.

I don’t feel the same anymore

Nothing feels the same anymore.

We flow with the flow with no end-

And call it a day gone by.

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Shrinking

The circumference of my comfort zone is shrinking
I am standing on a single toe, a promise of balance that is too ideal
Not real

I have multiple eyes on my body. They try to see all point of views.
An ant. Cloud. Raindrop.
Cat. Papa. Car.
The changing cabs and drivers.

The world around me is shrinking.
Smaller than the size of my dark circles.
My brain is shrinking.
Is it more like a cauliflower?
Or a single small pea with two cotyledons squished together?

Me from 5 years ahead stares at
Me from 5 seconds ago.
I don’t know either.

There is music somewhere.
I try to sway with the dancing trees,
For they too stand only on their crooked toes
With button eyes and shrinking fruits
Sour juice.

~insight07

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Manufactured minds

Manufactured minds-
A productive thought for a dollar each.
I imagine babies hanging mid air
A singing voice floating everywhere.
Flowers pink bloom against imagined walls
People stand in front of imagined gods-
Flames burn and the smoke rises
The smoke enters my cold lungs.
The anatomy of me is science
The anatomy of mind is unexplained-
I am counting pennies for each minute I sell my self.
I imagine fishes smiling at rocks with eyes
A ship sailing down towards the edge
Of an Earth that has lost its shape,
And is indeed flat as a button.
Peeping through one of the four holes,
I look at the sun blazing straight at me
As if hoping for my end
To close this loop of birth and death.
The mystery of existence in a sinking planet-
It’s 9:29 AM, time for my morning meeting.
“Hello, Good morning!
I am good, I have a few updates to make…”
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