Tag Archives: fear

Positing the Positive

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Hong Kong Disneyland, 2023

Fear feeds all paranoia
Till comfort of safety aches
Greed spells a reckless hunger
That ferociously salivates

Is that hope
That drives them both?
Is it a sense of purpose?
What is life without either –
Identity in crisis?

Complacency cannot win growth
When survival is a race
When that blackhole of belonging
Is scrounging for a place

And even then, to save
What little is left to lose,
Pessimism is a tool
That optimists are wont to use

Positivity does not preclude
The realities of daily warfare
It simply carries with grace
Any face I choose wear

– Akanksha Gupta

Fanatic’s Pendulations

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Indian’s Lazy Finger Caps
Congee Lake and Warehouse
Berry Lava Paniyarams
Sweet n Salty Purple Minions
Devil’s Hair
Warm Apple Innards
Scrappy Beet n Butter Dosa
Quirky Food Experiments

Love is kind, love is good

Love is where you do not look

Hate is a self-scorned lover’s gruel

Bitter burnt and served al-cruel

Faith is fine, faith is coarse

Even when doubts scream hoarse

Fear is faith’s aggravated assault

That grows unchecked in imagined faults

Love stews, hate incites

Faith explains, fear ignites

Time still rows the oars of fate

Domino of choices disconsolate

– Akanksha Gupta

Lock and Key

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Lurking in the depths of my soul
The hunger unfettered, growls and roars

I grab it tight with both my arms
With fingers unclenched from clammy palms

Yet fear threatens to swallow all sound
The muted ringing of silence surrounds

I dare not open my eyes, and stare
Into the very eyes of despair

On a face that could so easily mirror my own
Had it not been wildly unkempt and so very old

Dazed, startled, I uncurl again, and again glimpse
The future that spins anew with every blink

~ Akanksha Gupta (poem)

PARALEPSY

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Ole friend…
You once promised to stay
Throughout the journey
But in the middle of nowhere
I lost you, you left me

I thought I reached at last
I think was almost there
But, o but alas
I was struck by despair

Broken bones, broken faith,
Broken heart and broken soul
At once gone with the wind
Was me; my life, my whole

Then I called for you, you came
And so did my hope and might
And I revived my little world
Building on by bit and byte

Yes, you were right dear ole friend
You were always there for me, with me
But i forgot you somewhere in the dark
When i met with fear, my ole enemy