To rest..

Let the masquerade now end,
before the will be bend,
No more the plays of word,
Meanings lost, unheard..

Let this fantasy be slain,
Reality is but Sanity's bane,
No more of dreams be fed,
Hopes vain, unsaid...

Let the flames be doused,
embers to ashes aroused,
No more the passion dance,
desire interred, sans chance..

Let the music be ever quelled,
unsung words deathknelled,
No more the lilting serenade,
Bare emotions on parade...

Let silence hence be the mast,
its depth eternal and vast,
No more a communion fleeting,
a soul unto itself retreating...

of mental bondage...

Not having been able to conform all my life to the norms of desired behaviour in respect of so called important relationships/ties , I guess I'm like an iterant mental vagabond. And this often sends me on a thought trail about the mind and its travails and travels.

The human mind, since conception, is conditioned to grow roots. Having been blessed with an unfettered thinking capacity, we are then programmed to negate this truism all our lives and this is defined as the process of acquiring 'mental stability'. Those  who seek to withstand this onslaught of stimulated dependence are condemned as 'emotional drifters'.

 

Those who comply, more often than not, become puppets to the ringmaster or a 'conditioned to be dependent mind' playing out tricks to its baton beats or wand waves. They will then find themselves guilty (at a point of reckoning) of all the impotencies of will and character for which they would have, at some time, sympathised or pitied others, as their mental weaknesses or failings. They would then stand witness, maybe with consternation and remorse, to the transforation of the independent mind and soul into a hunted animal like creature, trapped within the confines of other's/s' biddings. This is like a self feeding addiction and very soon one could find oneself hooked beyond redemption for the soul, or the lost self.

If this pitiable emotional asphyxiation is the curse of the ties that bind us then wherefore the need to condition innocent, unbridled, uninhibited minds with the need for conforming to societal norms for relationships. Let all our attachments then be designed by intuition or instinct (like between a parent and child) than by the need to find/grow roots. For, very often these roots reverse their direction of growth and become the noose to our souls. Wouldnt it be better then to have clean transactions of human interactions, free from the trappings of sentimental drivel -  minds truly free of bondage...