27 October 2026

Calm before the Storm

To be opaque to new 
information, to be impartial 
to outside noise,
to not be triggered, and 
to happily bask in a certain 
kind of ignorance.

To actually take a step back
for introspection and to 
lie around listening to 
the chirps of birds.
And while you lie around 
and let the rampage of your 
useless thoughts ram-

Oh how it feels good to 
be a passenger in a train 
headed to heaven or a 
pebble falling along a 
waterfall to reach aquifers.

I mean, what a pleasure it 
is to breathe and let things 
happen or let it not-
and just then, if a poem 
travels from far afar to 
lands in your lap-

How nice it would be to 
pat its head, cook it some
broth. To nurse it, bathe it 
and put it back to sleep 
till it becomes a beast to
hail upon the world.