Absurd

Grass in purple,
and flowers in green
and the early evening dew
seen as a lovely sheen

I walk on the water
wading through the reeds
And I measure my friends
By their deeds

The brownness of the time

on the wall that plays the chime

Is a cue for myself and only me

Reminding me of everyone else I could ever be

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iNFiNiteSaDNeSS

I want to create an island far far out at sea

Made entirely of all the sadness within me

And without my sadness if I be

Will I have lost myself if that were the key?

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En route

When I look in the mirror I see

not who I wanted to be

I don't know what to say,

I got distracted on the way

From me I became he

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Ennui 1

Ennui chases me in very peculiar ways
A sequence of motionless days
I crave for a change in the game
But every day is exactly the same.

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Someplace Else

So why am I here
and not some other place?
A missing sense of belonging
to a certain rat race

I know I'm unique
just like everybody else
Me and everyone
have our own tiny cells

Of stereotyping, and compartmentalization (did I just make that up?), ethnic, physical, or any other kind, and the expression of desire to be part of an aspirational group, or to differentiate yourself from one, carving out niches for oneself, yet wanting to share a niche with someone - identity crises?

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