A Void Within!

Blemished thoughts

Disarrayed ideas

Unruly behavior

and loathsome persona

Are they a product of rising negativity around? OR

An absence of positivity within?

We would complain and whine

pointing out faults in others,

Choking over others’ lack of compassion

but tell me, are you generous enough?

We carry what others did to us,

We lovingly embrace the baggage

and let our spirit die under

And then go around screaming with bulged eyes

how nauseating the world has become.

We lend the onus on external affairs

to mar our mood and fortune,

but is it really so?

This is a question we seldom give a thought to

or perhaps we run from!

because truth has it that,

rather than the presence of anything futile

an absence of a vital creates more problems.

It is not the upsurge of indifference around you that kills

It is more about the ignorance you allow to sink in.

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vishalbheeroo says:

January 19, 2019 at 4:02 pm

This poem speaks the truth in a way nobody else would do Khyati and this baggage, nauseating negative is what brings negative energy deterring growth.

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1. Khyati Gautam says:
  
  January 20, 2019 at 8:24 am
  
  Thanks a lot 🙂
  
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इतिहास में ढेरों कहानियां दर्ज हैं। कुछ किस्सों को जड़ मालूम होती है, कुछ बस गुमनामी में रह जाते हैं। और फ़िर आते हैं वो जिनकी विश्वसनीयता झूठ लगती है, जिनका अस्तित्व बौना और प्रमाणता भद्दा मज़ाक।
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किरदार अधिक नहीं हैं और कहानी बेहद रोमांचक। इतना खून खराबा है, इतना अंधेरा, इतने राज़ - पूरा क्राइम पेट्रोल का एपिसोड ही हो गया। वाकई में एक निरंतर गति बनाये रखे लेखक ने एक उचित पटकथा का निर्माण कर दिया है। कहानी पहले पन्ने से ही लुभाती है। किरदारों के बीच के संवाद इतने जीवंत लगते हैं की इतनी लंबी होने के बाद भी किताब में उबाऊपन नहीं उत्पन्न होता। तीव्र गति से कहानी एक अध्याय से दूसरे में प्रवेश लेती है और ये सब बेहद आसानी से लेखक हमारे समक्ष प्रस्तुत करते है। मज़ेदार मजूमदार की जयंत को लेकर चुहलबाजी थोड़ा माहौल को हल्का करती है। अन्यथा तो कहानी में इतना डरावनापन है कि रोंगटे खड़े हो जाएं। खून और मांस के चीथड़ों के वर्णन ने थोड़ा जी तो मिचलाया पर गुत्थी के कौतुक ने बांधे रखा। जिस प्रकार कहानी समकालीन होकर भी महाभारत के काल तक की सैर करवाती है, मज़ा आ गया। आखिरी में जो एक ठूँठ पर लाकर किताब को छोड़ दिया गया है, अब अगले भाग का मुझे इंतज़ार रहेगा।
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अगर आप भी खूब खून और गोश्त से भरी रोमांचक कहानी पढ़ने को आतुर ही तो इसे उठाइयेगा। और अगर तब भी ये कारण छोटा लगे तो पांच हमशक्ल लाशों और वसीयत से लेकर इतिहास के गढ़े मुर्दे उखाड़ने के लिए ये किताब पढ़ियेगा।
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