Playing With Fire

All the chaos of in the world, may end in a new beginning or it may be the beginning of the end.

Playing with fire

All are playing with fire

Both gods and their loyal sects

They feel it’s time to attack

Not a time to play it safe

I stay awake at night

While sleep tries to beg

It climbs heavily on my eyelids

To shut down my tired brain

I let the moment pass

Open my eyes again

To stare at the lacklustre wall

For signs of coming days

Future they say is revealed

Always in the flaky paint

Somehow it doesn’t look good

Won’t matter anyways

We are all going to die

In a life of endless pain

Though most won’t at all feel it

High on a dope of faith

But consequences are heartless

Don’t entertain regrets

Curtains will come down

On the spectacle that is played

Fires will rise in the audience

Reach the splendid stage

In a grand finale the world

Will erupt in sulphurous flames

©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar

13 thoughts on “Playing With Fire”

    • With so many wars going on and the quality of leadership on display in most countries along with the public which is easily getting carried away, yes it is looking a Bit dark.

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      • If you know the political situation in our country, you’d say that there is no hope left for our people. But we still are hopeful.

      • When it’s only in a few countries then it’s not dangerous.

        But if we look around we can see that political systems in most countries are crumbling down for multitude of reasons. This happenings in a short time span don’t bode well for humanity.

      • In medical science we call it as overwhelmed sensors. When the sensory input rises to a very high level and continues for a very long time the body decreases its response to the input ( which would have been exaggerated if the sensory input was not chronic). This is sensitisation. Or getting used to.

        A kind of sensory fatigue begins.

        And it’s not a question of who will take the first step. It becomes, “how can one shrug off the influence of overstimulation and resultant sensitisation and become motivated enough to take the first step.

        It’s complicated. The odds are stacked up more against us than for, at the moment.

        Things may change for better in the future. But at the moment there is a severe draught of visionary leaders worldwide. And their place has been taken over by caricatures, who call the shots and decide about the direction, human present and future, should take.

      • Yes, that is a fact that we are desensitized. The pain and agony of others has no impact on us. The few people in charge of the world affairs are the most weak, ineffective and immoral people there could be. The majority of humanity is way better than them.

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