Chapter 1 of 2
Collection of my small verses
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Spider and the Fly
Stuck in the spider's web, I wonder whether negotiating with the spider would ever work. I long to break free, yet I find myself slowly becoming addicted,
to the poison, and to the spider itself. Can an apple from a rotten tree still be good, or is its core already destined to rot?
The spider apologised, the fly still stuck ,
Learning to use it's wings , because it finally learned the web is not the sky .
Chained Elephant
Freedom , how much can a chained elephant crave for freedom or what even is freedom for it. They bathe me , dress me up , parade me around , they say you are the centre of attention, doll up out on your best behaviour.So I endured it all the chains , the noises god the noises . Now I'm not an elephant in a festival. I removed my chains . But the question with freedom is what do I do with it . I am not able to survive in the Forrest the Forrest elephants have tasted a different freedom different from me , I don't belong there . And I don't belong here or there where do I belong now . What will I do with this freedom of mine ?
When you finally break free from a difficult situation, you
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The first analogy is like Stocklock Syndrome
There’s something haunting about this—how the fly starts to accept the very thing trapping it. It feels less about escape and more about realizing you were never meant to stay there in the first place. That last line really hits.
Both pieces carry such a powerful idea about freedom and how complicated it can become when you’ve spent so long living without it. The spider and fly especially captures how something harmful can become familiar enough that leaving it feels frightening. And the chained elephant adds another layer: sometimes getting freedom is only the beginning, because you still have to figure out who you are once the chains are gone. That feeling of not belonging anywhere after leaving what you knew is incredibly thought-provoking.