…

you are choking
read a sign ;
all the poems
words
thoughts
hurled inside you,
they dont make for a good living.

dusty books in dark rooms
kept
surviving for years
not read
not touched
alone
waiting
wasting
eaten by bugs
dont make for good reading.

you are choking,
right down on the base
of existential desperation
doing things in a hurry
not living
surviving ,
merely
in this life
that is meant to be lived.
-Anirudh Shankaran