Long Take

Something too real to be true!
So much beauty around.
Such scintillating scenes.

Sometimes
I wonder
Even God knows
How to make successful
Big budget movies.

At times
However
The CGI sets don't work
The green walls come down
And blood creeps in.

For Alejandro Zambra

Sometimes
I feel
As if
You and me are
Inside this enormous Zambra novel
(Enormous obviously being a pun here)
Where I'm busy pruning the bonsai
While waiting for you to come back from your art class.

This however happens sometimes only.

Rest of the times
We are inside this world.

Season of Migration

To think about you
Late nights
Is to snatch foreign lands
By the fist.

Countless mornings
I’ve woken up with
Migratory birds in my mouth.

Metaphysics of Communication

Rest of the times

I just trust them

You know:

Stormy weather

Low energy

Cosmic events

Heavy traffic

etcetera etcetera

Usually

However

I wonder:

Doesn't the sweet taste of our words

Disrupt the technology at heart?

Were phone calls

Designed to transfer this much love?

Misunderstanding

It takes ages
To understand.
Some don’t understand
Even after decades.
Others only pretend they
Have understood.
I have seen a few who don’t even
Pretend to understand
They say it is not that important.

But I believe:
The trench loneliness digs
Inside in search of wisdom
Is far significant
Than the innumerable puddles
People make in you
So as to feel good about themselves. 

One-sided Poem

Treat this

As a gentle reminder 

From the 

Secret Society of Unrequited Love Poets. 

‘Don’t unnecessarily read stuff!

Not all poems are about you. 

Your eyes are precious to us.’

Reductio ad Aesthetic

Sometimes
I want to reduce
Everything to basics:
The earth to amoeba
Life to survival
Windows to trees
Beauty to perception
Grief to poverty
A building to brick
Happiness to pretension
Love to poetry.

And you and me
To the moment when you said
“I am reading three novels simultaneously”

No sentence has made more sense
Since then.
Everything else seems irrelevant.