Retribution~

This poem bagged SECOND SUCCESSIVE GOLD Blog-a-Ton Batom  !!


This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 34; the thirty-fourth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton. The theme for the month is "Of-Course, I'm insane"

"Of-course, I am insane”

‘A blood thirsty terrorist’ 
who smeared the earth with blood

Now, lying in the grave, fatigued...

With no headstones, epitaphs
Waiting to get decayed…

Like a dead skin of a snake

Under heaps of unwanted scraps

Intrepid sounds and smells of memory

Fill me with pity and disgust

‘I am myself and my circumstances….’

Not even a maggot would

Grow out of my debris 

The pages are a testimony

With guns, blood-shed, grenades

I numbed many hearts lurking in the dark

Confronting spasms of hatred, 
My soul changed tracks since then

We have grown apart... 
sharing neither anxieties, nor sins

‘I am myself and my circumstances…’

Shivering beneath the wintery nights

Like a dismembered animal

I realize, this is not a story of a hero

But, merely the narrative of a cynic,

Of a nasty man, silenced to death at last

Though an awakening seems ridiculous now;

But, ….‘Silence is a great healer’

Civilization covers up uncomfortable silences

The damp earth is giving way

The grass springing back in its wake 
…allow me to emerge as a good human being!

‘I am myself and my circumstances…’

 [After all, repentance speaks louder than words….]

"There have been occasions of silencing of nature, including our very own human nature, and we need to let this silence break and speak…..”—Martin Heidegger— 

‘I am myself and my circumstances….’---  Famous existentialist, Ortega y Gasset proposes that philosophy must overcome the limitations of both idealism (in which reality is centered around the ego) and ancient-medieval realism (in which reality is located outside the subject) in order to focus on the only truthful reality (i.e., "my life" — the life of each individual). He suggests that there is no me without things and things are nothing without me: "I" (human being) cannot be detached from "my circumstances" (world). This led Ortega y Gasset to pronounce his famous maxim "Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia" ("I am I and my circumstance") (Meditaciones del Quijote, 1914) which he always placed at the core of his philosophy—source from wiki!!

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