Gaurav Ojha
Come; let us head buck the
universe
To see what she has got
Intense tone of
Pitiless indifferences and irreducible errors
How has it all occurred?
What does it mean to be a human?
Chimpanzee mind with sophisticated artificial modeling
Animals in the wild or Saviors in mythologies
Where are your proximities in behaviors and perceptions?
Meaning is in Darwinian reference of
Survival, reproduction, and bit of reciprocal affections
Mixed it up with Freudian fixations, suppressions and regressions
Meaning is where it is not supposed to be
And, then comes heroes of cartoons, screen and movies
There is something magical about interpretation
That makes this boring plot so interesting
We all believe more than what we suppose
Between unloading and fading out
Living for all those useless things that makes life worth living
Once, I heard the gentle murmuring by the stream
Of a sage moon as he was, Rajneesh
Ma, Ma, Ma
Math, Music, Mediations
In my lonely hours, as I was restless in my bed
I listened to a madman with the voice of Zarathustra,
Reason and Madness, Cosmos and Chaos
Probability and Randomness
Combine to create dazzle on the surface of meaninglessness
Nietzsche spoke, you are what you overcome
The Prophet of New Testament sermon
Don’t judge for thou shall be judged
I said to him, I can’t even cast the first stone
I have all the contradictions within
And, for Two Krishnamurti, I admire
J. spoke of truth as pathless land
I observe as I am
Live with choiceless awareness
UG like a sledge hammer reminded
Mind is myth and thinking is against living
Sages of Upanishads have said
All is all but all, even if you take out all
And, as the dawn was about to break
Buddha in silence nodded his empty head
Even if you exist, you don’t
Hare Krishna, I still believe in love
For all the delusions I have racked up my wall
With Karl Popper, I celebrate open society
And, how human mind works shifting between clock and cloud models
Why only the one? I have been saved by too many?
Let us not look beyond or behind something
Meanings of things are like bones and blood
Fire and ice
Struggle between Day and night in the twilight sky
Smoke emanating from dead bodies in funeral pyre
A child dying of a bone cancer in a hospital bed
Human fetus aborted to hide senseless pleasure
A mother left alone in an old home by her only son
And when you can’t even trust the face of an innocent child
Meaning is discouraging, dangerous and dark
Meaning is not what you discover, create or believe
Meaning is in between what you know and don’t know
Meanings are devalued for new meanings to appear
Hanging between silence, signature and speech
Meaning is still waiting and returning,
After all the explanations, analysis and interpretations
(Gaurav Ojha has engaged as a faculty and department head of communication, critical thinking, business research, marketing and marketing research in different educational institutions. As a part of his creative interests, Mr. Ojha has regularly published opinion posts, poems and articles on a wide range of topics from death, disease, social issues, and humanism to post-religious spirituality.)