Author: Rahul Gaur
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[117] The Battle Of The Idle Mind
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An idle mind sits alone stoic as its nature it sits wandering with no aim A preface to the devil’s workshop It seduces the soul inside The mind meditates on its decision but considers all the outcomes They range from despair to joy to suffering In order to avoid suffering ignorance comes to the rescue…
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[116] The Spiral of Ignorance
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every time you leave i wish it is a sunset and i wait laying and lying hoping you will return as a sunrise harsh in your remembrance but sweet in your memories you tell me a story that meanders through my mind as i look at you curling your hair with your fingers in a…
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[115] My 5 Most Popular Blog Posts for 2017
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I started this blog as an experiment to become a serious writer after all. Writing has been therapeutic, cathartic and productive in helping me come close to my imperfect perfect version that I seek to achieve. My goal was to write 100 posts in a year and I completed it with 14 more, so you can…
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[114] The Fallacy of Mankind
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These eyes know little than what’s in between the lines but they try to open up what’s dormant in the mind like letting in colours of opinion and opinions about colours like a blue or a navy or a beige or a brown somewhere between complexity and concise somewhere between simplicity and sublime I walk…
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[113] A Case Against You
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There is a hearing in the courtroom. You sheepishly pull yourself together to the stand. This is a case against you. A drop of a nervous sweat trickles down your forehead as you wipe it away before anyone can see it. This is the dominion where you are put to the test of life. You…
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[112] Tiny Blue Dot
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The duality of it all conflicts when the astronaut walks on the ground the oxygen in his tanks leaks to light him up the bleak space up above fainter he closes his eyes until it closes his mind a stargaze up above lands itself on the ground the astronaut twinkles to the ones far away…
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[111] The Nation’s Mystery
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Part of my culture conflicts with my nature a deception of my mind I don’t let it resist a conscious of a nation so I fall back and fall apart to hide from the desire of standing out Then they say Nobody wants to know your mystery Mystery man You’re self-conscious about your own mystery Mystery…
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[110] Forgetful Dance
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bit by bit my skin wears off To see your true colours has been harrowing for my bones they demand a sight coupled with denial My body resists its shedding as your words slice it again & again bit by bit melting away like the resolve i had for you when you met me besides the…
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[109] Reflection Of Each Other
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Thinking of unfulfilled dreams and hopeless hopes I turn my attention outwards to the expressionless faces that repress characters in favour of an impression they want to have on me oblivious to each other’s truthful thoughts as we nod to the fabrication of our souls scared of a misunderstanding and an acceptance of a lie…
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[108] The Nostalgia Man
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He always spoke and moved in the past tense as if living life backwards All he wanted was a time-machine forgetting that the past would become the present and the present is not sweet like nostalgia but bitter than before it’s a realisation that your problems exist and that the gone will remain gone now He…
Smoke words every day. 