Time travel

Maqbool Fida
2 min readSep 25, 2021

Do you ever read old chats?
Whatsapp, mails or pieces of paper?
Medium is the message they say,
Then they say it isn’t.

In a world where nothing is absolute,
Living this half dead life,
Purposeless,
Aimless.
Well, to be honest
Settlers have aims,
Artists have ambitions.

Sure, an engineer can be an artist
So can a rickshaw puller be.
Who is to decide?
The one who lives above all hills?
The Adiyogi?
Or the simulation that we live in?

You could go out for brunches and those dinners,
Drink till it comes out of your nostrils,
It's just suppression,
An oppression of your own self.

Ya, hanging out with friends is cool,
But have you met a friend who is like super cool,
But disappears in the morning!

Who spoke shit that you could relate to,
Like every word!
Like hey, you sound an anarchist,
Or a nihilist or a disruptor.

I don't know sire,
Why are the clouds moving so fast?
Also what is wrong with that spider?
All alone on the wall.
Searching for itself.
Well, if you are there he isn’t alone right?

Who is to stay, who is alone
There are still penguins on Antarctica
Focus brother, penguins… s.

Filling the void,
With tobacco sticks
Till your neck
Up to the brim,
Like that glass of rum you just spilled
Fucking asshole!

Ashtrays are pretty aren’t they?
Well the world is an ashtray.
A friend told me once,
Just like you,
He disappeared in the morning.

Weird things, morning.
Someone said time is just a concept,
It does not really exist
Stuuuuupidest thing I’ve heard in a long time
I've heard a lot of them.

If you think that friend was right
You should stop reading this.

No, seriously you should stop!

What's that spider doing in my room?
Is he looking for some charlie?
Or Lucy in the sky maybe?

You are high on your brain bro
It's called mind, you idiot.
Vivek a mun mun said so.

You quote a lot from other people
Ya, I guess I have become other people.

What do you think about time travel?
Ummmm… Do you ever read old chats?

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Maqbool Fida

There are things that you want to do and then there are things that you have to do.