Another verse on Compassion and Austerity

Kindness
and calm
is a pleasure
that hides
the weight of all
at heart
but when calm
encourages wrong and it's counter parts,
austerity is smart
even at the cost of calm
and leaving nothing at heart.

This market

I am not
part of your market
a game
a search
a projection
an advertisement
I don't want to
sell myself to you
or entertain you
so please play with
those who play,
and are part of the game.
I was never in it,
so I am never the person to be told out of it
I never asked of you
so I'm not afraid of losing you -
the game is yours, not mine,
you played,
you wanted to be in
and you alone wish to leave,
and can play on -
I judge nothing too soon,
and even if you stay,
you may not be capable of winning my respect or trust.

Honesty

Some like to be honest,
some not,

how much honesty helps with clarity

and how much in making you vulnerable,

is another question..

We can only estimate the honesty of how much others share or express

and of that unshared and unsaid.

and yet the motives or whether they mean what they say and show what they mean

is never known,

and perhaps if it isn't, 

it isn't meant for you.

Is it a gift to never really know exactly the extent of what the other feels

or what they truly feel or mean,

to only wonder and wonder 

if you alone wonder
or even care,

and be not half as deceptive
and lose out on life
and each other,

or would it help

to know to the tee,

and does anyone even care,

for that kind of meaning

and joy
or to be known,
or know?

Know

No one wishes

to know

to bother

to want to be

with
to even ask

like I do

when they can

just be happier

by the lack of everything

simply,

since knowing is effort,

and no one wants to know

as quick as they are to judge

and conclude

what they don't even

care to know.

Adaa aur Sarhadein

Rakhein har ada ko parde main
har adaa ki hain sazaayein
ayenge dobaara uthaane uski har adaa ka luft bewafa
par poojenge adaa nahi sazaa,
bei-adaa ki har razaa,
toh bhool gayi adaayein aur hawayein woh,
aur seekheen sarhadein,
har amal ki.