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Chandy Aug 2021
Everyone
Wants to talk about change
Yet, no one ever wants
To embody it
Chandy Jul 2024
The lives we live seem unnatural
Loving materials
Giving ourselves obstacles
Voyaging to other places
Watching plastic faces
Living in the mundane
Hating the day-to-day
Doesn't it make you bored?
Following the horde
Hiding the truth under floorboards
Behaving like warlords
Only giving out money to landlords
Lord of the door, it's all we can afford
Time draws near but you were never here
Despite it all, when I see nature
It all feels natural, it all feels related
Chandy Sep 2022
Drinking beers
To avoid tears
For the fear of disgrace
Weighs heavy on the face
Embarrassment, for feelings and drinking
In this world
No one can feel
For judgment it brings
Chandy Dec 2020
Sons of the priest
Wash water
To burn it all on the altar
Every offering, pleasing
Crumbled, into essence
Chandy Nov 2024
Arrows flung by the youth
War commanded by the ancient
Hey, get up
We have more to conquer
Hey, get up
We have more to fire
Hey, get up!
We have more of you to spare!
But you will never command my soul
Chandy Dec 2020
A daily mantra:
Talk is cheap, actions speak louder
Why do we trust product marketing
If talk is all they can afford?
Chandy May 2020
All of my friends
Betrayed to rusted machines
Filled with corks
Screws
Lugnuts and bolts
Tragedy struck like lightning
Noose is ever-tightening
Piece of machine
Lies within my frame
Not willing
Since it was not in my billing
Above the pay grade
That an F could afford
Lost to machines
We created and now cause us to decay
I knew that I would die
But not as a ***
With no march, absence of a marching drum
Beat my flesh and bone
Weather me like a storm
Rain poured on my face
Pushed aside
Thrown to the curb
Hurts to be the one?
Shift your feet at once now
Carry on!
Chandy May 2
Would you open a door
If you knew what was coming?
Would you step on the frame
If the other side was worse?
Would you twist the doorknob
If what awaited was pain?
Pain brings progress
But all ours seems unnecessary
Necessary to progress
But all we do is beat others down
When we lift others up
We push ourselves down
But maybe, that's okay
Because in the end
Living is not ethical
Chandy May 4
Intuition
Superstition
Reflecting on rivers
Twisted by moonlight
Illusions and tricks
Among the sticks
Clarity, duality
Pieces of a mystery
The lightest stars
Cast the deepest shadows
Deception remains wrong
But it sells in bulk
En masse, selling masks
Blinded by reflections
Chandy Aug 2021
Inadequate quality
Leads to faults
If only the mind was treated
Like a factory line
Then blind disregard
Would lead to opened eyes
Chandy May 13
Small things made us content
Until growth took over our lives
Getting more turns into a bore
When we cannot take in
Small times
Remember the past days?
Every aspect of life felt
Like an unsolved mystery
But now we have grown
Complicit and trapped
In routines that we never liked
But if this is the future
Did we ever enjoy small things?
Were we born to toil in normality?
Maybe it's too early
But I have always been too late
Chandy Oct 2021
High altitude
Brought to a bigger status
Here comes the panic
Higher reputation brings a sobering mutation
Babbling turns to quotations, fame incarnate
Afraid of heights, embodied in metaphor
How can I rise with a fear of heights?
Making new flights to forget the time
A daily ritual, commonplace
Fusion of melancholy and lazy days
Afternoons turn to night
Nights turn to days
I can predict these things, they keep going
But the waves drag me under
Awake till moonlight, it's cold outside
Thinking "maybe this time", like the day before
Every day is disarray, how do I get away?
Chandy Feb 2020
Away
Get yourself out of here
Disgust?
Of course not.
I said...
Leave this place
I cannot hold on
Any longer
To such a
Corrupted tabernacle
I'll swallow the pain
Try not to inflict it
You weren't the one
Removed my arm
Now I'll say again
Run away
From the injured one.
Chandy Mar 2020
Stop.
You've pushed me down
Knocked my hopes out
Into embers
Tore my faith apart
After years
Built it all back up
Like any empire
Rise
Fall
Rebirth
Yet now you come
Back to pillage
Ruin is all you bring...
Part of me can't comprehend
That you are...
...me.
Chandy Mar 2021
Looking out
At the vast universe
Not for analysis, for answers
Chandy Jan 2022
How we evolve
How we create
We change every day, year, century
The progress we make
Equivalence to a millimeter
On the universes' yardstick
Waiting for the day of reprieve
Even rats can only race for so long
So long gone
Conversion into centimeters
Still, so far gone
So far to go
Only so many years until it all goes stale
Looking for a place to bail
In a locked and sealed enclosure for closure
Waiting for the day
When we wake up to a new one
Chandy Feb 2020
The people want hope
A messiah
Someone to look up to
In times of hardship
Death
War
Famine
Catastrophe
Gifted with the power
To create
I will make a new hope
For all to survey
Doctorate in electrical reasoning
With pure electricity
Bring forth the mechanical messiah
Chandy Nov 2021
As the music box plays
Childhood melodies
Pure joy and bliss
With a mind full of thrills
Then, I grew up
And the notes distorted
Chandy Jul 2024
Hit the age
Of a broken page
Reminding me of my cage
All I live for is a wage
Trapped in a stone age, enraged
Never quite engaged since I was teenage
Years progress but the time is hard to gauge
Not quite a sage, not quite upstaged
Yelling offstage in an outrage
Lost and encaged
Chandy Jun 2024
Glimmer and glamour
Grey buildings with vacant eyes
Advertised to buy
Chandy Aug 2021
Impressionable minds
Latch onto broken ideologies
When the ship sinks
The captain escapes, on their backs
Chandy Sep 2021
Everything we create
An extension of the mind
So when disconnection occurs
Pain and pleasure intertwine
The world goes into decline
While business increases, for the hotline
Chandy Nov 2020
Reflections change perception
Make those weak, vulnerable to deception
From the moment of its inception:
Do we truly know who we are?
Chandy Aug 2021
Misadventures
Fun to laugh at
Horrible to engage in
Chuckling at misfortune
Yet no one else can see it
Sad sacks bring back hacks
Fame off of misfortune
No wonder we're cold
Our hearts have become strongholds
Chandy Jul 2024
On that final day
What did your promise mean?
You said, don't worry
We will meet again
But, the more time passes
The further you go
Why must my friends go so far?
Why must my heart be so large?
You were my world
But I was never yours
Was it a shock for me?
Not really, not anymore
Chandy Oct 2021
Sibling rivalry
Two, spiteful jealousy
One, empty living
Chandy Nov 2021
No longer
Can I taste
The fresh flavor of fun
Is it because of too much exposure?
Has my mind changed?
Has the world changed?
When will the fun come?
Is fun important? Is life important?
Too many questions with no distraction
I care about nothing
I feel nothing
I am innocent--no longer
Chandy Aug 2021
My friends
Think of death as not an omen
Perceive it as what it truly is:
Natural
Change can bring terror
Sometimes, laughter
But death is change with no transparent effect
It is like all change
Why do we fear it?
Because we can not control it.
But, is that so bad?
Chandy Mar 2020
Enlighten me
How much is our humanity?
May not matter
Advent of science
Renaissance directed at culture
Better than past trends
Born amongst ruin
Unenlightened actions
Near a church-born saint
Love found up above
With no answer
Once again
Forgotten by the stars
Throw out of the night sky
Labeled as inferior
When in their time
It was their standard
Incomparable
Ideals never present
What was once the truth
Mere opinion
Pure hypothesis
Drawn together
By what gives us comfort
Chandy Mar 2021
A comedian
Upon the stage
Prancing and dancing
Acting deranged
Yet once the audience departs
They sit alone
Hoping their fans heard the message
They were trying to impart
Chandy Nov 2021
Call the laborer a slave
For they both have chains
Ones that have none, fight for more
Toiling at a place I once enjoyed
Now I sit around and think
"Will I ever see joy?"
Using entertainment to block out the hate
But my brain speaks a truth
Not even I want to hear
Going insane at a daily stage
All I own are distractions
That separates me from the membrane
Chandy Jan 2020
In
Then out

Memory
Distant memory

I call it
School
Chandy Apr 2020
What's joy?
Something earned playing with toys?
Gathering a solid grade
For academics is your trade
All of these gaps
Happiness is a time-lapse
Everyone digs for its remaining wraps
Can't think of a time where it didn't collapse...
But that's alright.
It is no blight
Merely a runaway
For in due time, we'll meet halfway
It never remains, so why should we feel betrayed?
Chandy Apr 2020
What's rage?
Rampage on a stage
Called the world
Never really known, constantly unfurled
CLOSE THEIR EYES
IT BURNS THROUGH YOUR DISGUISE
BUT TO THEIR SURPRISE
THEY'RE THE REASON YOU SERIALIZE
Step back.
No time to crack
Daily times, it may rise
Commonplace human demise
Guide your struggles, create not destroy
Chandy Dec 2020
To one person
Good may be bad
To another
Bad may be good
But what is the difference?
In reality:
They never truly existed
Chandy Dec 2021
A modern man
Shall be deemed more than a man
Because he is not a man
But the shell of a man
Remnant of a bygone era
Where heroes were real
And villains were defined
Until the world woke up
To the aftermath of hysteria
Chandy Feb 2021
Love
Action
The most compassion
Restricted to 24 hours?
How about 8760 hours?
Chandy Mar 2021
Black man
White man
Asian man
Hispanic man
Love to point out the race
While discarding the man
Chandy Mar 2020
Not leaving
Just searching
For a purpose
Chandy Feb 2022
Standing
On the edge of a pier
I walk, I always walk
Never eager for it to end
But soon
Even if I crawl
It will end
It has to end
For it is here
Soon, it will be there
In that place, I do not know
Because the moment I grew
Every time I look back
I'm always looking
For you
Until the day I drown
I will wander, I will wonder
What happened to you?
Chandy Jul 2024
On this day, I claim
Rebellion against the life we have made
Where millions are muted, mutilated
Muttering truth to give meaning to myths
Until they ******* muzzles
Our feelings are mutual
But we are not mutuals
More divides us than unites us
Mysticism is a mystery
With no solution, only excuses
Treated like the product we consume
Thrown, discarded, mass-produced
Is this why I feel weak with myself?
If peace is mythical
Burn the world down, make it rise as a phoenix
Chandy Jun 14
Bullets fly
But the damage is skin deep
Masquerade ball
But the mask is on all day
Crossing cultures
But the purpose is monetary
Fighting for peace
But fighting never stops
Running in circles
But the path was made
Noise canceling
But the meaning never penetrates
One side goes down
The other goes up
Not even ground  
There is no even ground
Chandy Apr 2020
When I was a child
I loved you
When I was a teenager
I ignored you
When I was an uncertain adult
I forgot you
Now that I am on the edge
Close to my expiration date
There's no one else in the room
To alleviate the gloom
So, I must admit
At the beginning I loved
But now...
I miss you.
Chandy Jun 6
All the hate
All the rage
I wonder, deep down
If it was never anger
Sadness maybe?
A rage against what cannot be?
Who did they want to be?
Under the surface
Tortured souls
Begging for love
That will never come home
Chandy Apr 2022
Poles of greenery
Strike toward the sky
Without them, I'd choke
In the ashes of an uncaring community
It grows on its own
Neither perfect nor fully grown
No need for a shave, forget about fashion
Towering above the world we made
I question:
Why does a tree make a human look enslaved?
Chandy Mar 2020
Used all my money
Not for me
Someone else
It'll be replaced
With more money
So right now
It's worth it.
Chandy May 9
Offering no chance for stability
Puppetered by the hands of nobility
Ceasing the acts that made us deceased
Oh, such a joyous thing
Blowing out candles
Just to keep our own
Such is the way back home
We are not admirable
Instead, we are just a fallacy
Chandy May 2022
When did offspring
Become an investment?
How does one parent
After years of neglect?
Why spread the blood
Of flaws and evil?
Bringing no other bonus
Except of course, for the workforce
Another camel to bear another load
Another simian to watch implode
Too much of one thing
Neglects all others
How can a universal principle not apply to us?
The ones who created all the glitz and glamor
Who struggle to digest harsh grammar
False pretenses only add more tension
So when I do not feel safe
Who can blame me?
Chandy Sep 2021
I care for those
Who never cared for me
All I've become is a rat
No Black Plague
But I've gone from "everybody" to an antibody
Homebody, I am not scared of life
Yet, I cannot look it in the eye
Lips are rife with the word "lowlife"
Look away, I have become a deformation
The incarnation of flagellation, desolation
Isolation is all I crave
Who cares about being brave in the face of a wave?
Chandy Mar 2021
Victim of the cortex
Home of the addicted
Behavior overtaken
Turned into a lifestyle
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