is daur-e-bejunuu.N kii kahaanii ko_ii likho

has taken months and weeks and days to come back to the blog... and i still have nothing pinching enough to say.

so here we are on a blank. with so much happening around, tibet, zimbabwe, raj thackeray, cricket, records, summer, farmers' loan waiver, economic boom, more car launches, more shahrukh's businesses, more media speculations, more of this and less of that...

how does one document absence, vaccum, gap?

absence of thought, feelings, ideas, creativity,
vaccum - which could have been filled with constructive stuff (or even destructive!),
gap between passive and active..

it's the presence of stuff - good or bad, happy or sad, mom or dad (hee hee! couldn't resist a bad poem) that we talk about, remember and even use for future?

but absence? like absence of poetry after world war II. like absence of enthu - boredom... like all the days when thoughts come and go as a matter of habit...like all those days themselves that come and go as a matter of routine...

dont they deserve a mention in our psyche, diaries, coffee conversations, drunken blabbers, blogs? even by doing nothing, it does some stirring some where... or is it just the beginning of april... pushing lilacs out of sleep as eliot said... lets not underestimate absences, vaccums, gaps...

here is to blanks...

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ahmed faraz

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