Altering Landscape

For all the land and water,
for all the skies blue.

Those who are at a fight, constant,
claiming to legalize the stretched view.

For thousands of years passed,
the landmasses had been shifting.

The land which was once in the west,
seems now to be east existing.

The stories, the times, the era of the past,
which now seem to be the inherited cultural source,

Existing proofs of all these have been found all over the earth we know,
in places so far unexpected, and in deep dark drowning oceans decepted.

Thou claim the land as you want, but never forget the pact,
Yes, your pact of life, i.e. survival exists not mere than eighty years.

And like everything returns to his creator,
you too shall return to this land, in your dark stage of twilight.

As these men who think they claim it,
are themselves not mere than dust.

Coz it's not nature that's from us,
But us from mother nature arise.
                                 
                                                  -Vartika Saxena

Photographs -(keeper of rusted memories)

(Happy World Photography Day)

The richness of the photographs lies in their yellowing with time.

Although the pictures, be it on paper or wrapped up around the digital coding, speaks volume about those times lived.

The happiness, the emotions, and all the roller coastered time during those already spent portions of life come whirring around your imaginative eyes.

It's powerful, it's enchanting and it pulls you into that precise perfect time, with a snap of a finger,
and there you are living those moments again and again, like a dope being pulled out of its senses, it pulls you into it as if a magical spell being cast upon.

It makes you re-live those moments again and again,
and the best part is the natural autocorrect, as with time it eliminates all the painful emotions connected to these little pieces of paper.

Photographs, no doubt are the most advanced yet the oldest method of travelling.

You can no wonder visit places where you have been to, to the people who no longer can meet you in the physical world.

Photographs are the external memory of our brain as it stores all the forgotten stories, times, and feelings we had ever lived.

All you have to do is -click the button and there you go capturing memories for a lifetime.
                                                       -Vartika Saxena 

WHITE ENVELOPES (From dear sister to a brother)

Colorful threads enclosed within,
with letters of love and care;
Dispatched to plains far off,
through crowded places and deserted traces
with men of different races and extremely stranger faces!

Finally carried by mailman to the unknown doors,
to familiar people residing within,
sharing common childhood house-hold.

Household of everlasting memories and a booster for nostalgia.

These familiar humans far off have been an important part, despite distance long enough they never came out of the heart.

Belonging of togetherness so pious value it beholds!

These people who are a part of home, have a little home away from home.

Calling out to all the dear lovely brothers,
no matter whether you are far off, or someplace near,

My love and blessings will always be there, no matter how much the sky seems clear.

Those colourful, memories will remain,
enclosed within white envelopes which I share with you every year.
                                                           -A sister
                                                      Vartika Saxena

Thyself

That hollowness subsides, 
when you peacefully reside,
On a shoulder you own,
Yes! Your own!!

That's what it is, love it is,
With a prefix 'SELF', 
which you rightfully slide beside your pride;
Ego is what is left behind,
With a pinch of you, in all the light and bright places, 
The fancy bites and crowdy laces;

But you're lost and 'lost and found',
by nonetheless you. 
The very righteous owner,
but full of sharp edges and corners.

Little pat and an itsy bitsy treat, 
how much it streaks the kid's zeal! 
Go on gentle to that wrapped up toddler,
Yes, that one, the one you disguise. 
Hold hands, pull it out of the dire dark side,
where it bawls and shouts and painfully scoffs.

No show offs,  no runny ramps, no city lights, no singing bands!

Unleash the self, wild and fierce,
like phoenix ignited from a tear,
burn bright, glow light, dim the plight, and rise wide!

And then, when you peacefully reside, that's when you discover you are a might.
                                                    - Vartika Saxena 

#BlackLivesMatter

Happy vacays!!!

Bicycling like crazy,
in meadows and in daisies;

Games of frisbee and cricket,
waiting to see downed wickets;

Karaoke and musical camps,
and teaming up for bonfire dance;

Toddlers learning to swim with their mums,
along with the rubber tubes around their bumpy tums;

Skies painted with flying kites,
like brush being stroked in black and white;

Rushing to granny's place for sleepovers,
coming out all thick and fluffy like panda lovers;

Spending days and nights, until the countdown begins,
then hovering to the class mates house for homework diggins;

Reaching the end of vacays, locking loads of happy moments,
charged enough to go down the months working through the assessments;


Vacations had been the long desire of each and every kid throughout the year,
longing for one as soon as the new session appears!
                                   -Vartika Saxena

Doesn't this entire scenario changes your perception?

After all this gets over, we are gonna emerge as a more compassionate world. In these times of practicality, on which this generation is built. All these disasters, ruining of lives and families of known unknown, loss of dear ones and near ones and everything affecting our lives.

We are unknowingly building up the lost emotions. Those extinct feelings of love, care, respect for people working day and night, concern for each and every being in any corner of the world. All these will eventually lead to the building of newness in every person going through these calamities. When the new earth will emerge, people will also be renewed with emotions and feelings in much more depth, irrespective of color, caste, or society.

It takes 21days to form a habit and these feelings definitely are going to be embedded in the new us!  

                                                          -Survivor
                                                     Vartika Saxena

Is this pandemic the way of evolution for new generation?

Doesn't it seem the process of the next-gen evolution?

We had been mercilessly practising human-benefiting acts for our advantage from the times unknown, despite being aware of the consequences of harming our nature, our environment or on the whole of our mother earth.

We know that there is no 'Planet B' for us but this habit of ours to keep on thrusting things on others for our selfish motives has made us do the same with our planet earth as we all knew that the earth has no mouth to raise her voice. And being humans we tend to suppress anybody who can't express, that's the dominating nature we all possess.

But what we forgot was that everything and everybody has its limits and I think we just crossed the borderline.

The theory of 'Natural Selection' proposed by Charles Darwin is what we are going through. It seems like the earth is rebooting. And it's not the first time that something like this is happening. There is an entire factual based historical evidence of the world being rebooted every 100th-year. This is just a natural process of the evolution of living organisms for a new world.

'Survival of the fittest is what we are going through. It's a kind of test to be cleared. The ones who can clear will become the members of the new generation whereas the weaker ones (low immunity or physical strength or willpower etc) will be eliminated naturally as we all can witness.

A few months from now everything will be starting afresh with living organisms having more advanced traits required for survival in that kind of environment existing at that time.

We shouldn't be scared of what is happening all around the world, instead, we should accept the change. We are all going through a process of change and it ain't gonna be easy. In simple words tests are never easy so how could this one be.

If you believe that the beginning of the selection process was the outbreak of this pandemic in 2020 then let me recall you in 2019 there were 'The lungs of the earth on fire' i.e. The Amazon Rainforest then by the end of the year Australia was burning and we all know how much of the Kangaroo's and Koala's population was eliminated.

When huge animals like dinosaurs who once ruled the earth are no more seen walking around except their remains in the museum.

What are we then?

BALANCE IS THE KEY. Whenever we would fail to, mother nature would take responsibility in her hands.
                                                        - Vartika Saxena