The charade of civilized life continues as it always has...with plastic smiles and come-hither looks . With untamed ambition masked by snakeskin of caring.
Through the cavernous valley of life, the one thing that each one of us has learned - is to have an insatiable hunger-a monster that we create of our own will. A monster of discontent- created by the seed sown very early in life. A hunger that we create for ourselves, that gives us some 'purpose' in life, before enslaving us to its wily charms of Gold and Gifts. Today we have knowledge about so many things of the Earth and beyond, but the understanding of our own insignificance and limitations seems to have passed by us completely.
The beasts in us are more active then ever. Time and time again we feel the call a voice from deep within us that tell us in whispers that beneath the veneer called knowledge, we are no different than the beasts we seek and the beasts we eat. That the same anger and lust that animals seek over their own kind and others seeps through our veins too -
Anger- Always prevalent just beneath the surface. We wait in the shadows looking for a mistake made by someone- To break something (perhaps even ourselves) when the moment is right. The eternal glow of destruction that always calls out to us in the darkest recesses of the mind.. to find the strength to strike and strike harder until emptiness descends upon us.
Lust- Eternally Red which the most primitive Call the one that is all pervading, all consuming-the very basic instinct of them all.A guttural feeling that begins somwhere near the navel that slowly dominates all thought because of a visual impulse. The roving eyes that try to compensate for all the five senses and fail always. The Parched throat that can never be quenched, the fire of desire that can be extinguished only when bodies meet.
Look at the world around- where the Business of voyeurism earns the maximum followed by the Business of anger (War)
Today, the knowledge we have gathered have enabled us in ways never thought of before, to feed our dominant emotions and enable us to be more destructive than every before. The Lacunae of Peace, Tranquility, Understanding and wisdom have grown larger- a balance that was fragile to begin with has ben shattered long before toddlers say their first words.
The charade of civilized life continues as always... Allowing us to plot miserable pain on others in the seclusion of our homes while feeding our own private lusts.
Dominated by our desires and ambitions we step from stone to stone in the sea of life while forgetting fully that the achievements of the past and present (and history will agree) all get ground to the dust in due course of time.
And all this while, the Call of the Wild - to pander to our wants and needs, to fight for survival and to dominate and live or Accept and perish - is getting Louder within us...
