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A picture on the wall. Raj Shekar Raj Shekar says, "Travel, amateur astronomy, music (all kinds), The Net and technology at the edges .... my interests. In essence I am but an empathising observer and sometimes....a participant willing and otherwise. It is 'life' that provides me with fresh insights, rehashed ones and the panorama of 'detail'. Intrinsic in it are its 'true' depth and structure which I attempt to reflect. My conveyence-expousing-expression of the same is as everything else subject to Godels limits.,, and mine the day I stop 'learning'."

A
kaleidoscope
of images
a series called life
eventfull
tragic
humorous....

From fuzziness
to an identity
an
'I am '
this I be......

and

life goes on
wears 'I 'down
in the the conformist merging
the 'I' lost
to the security and ease
of 'we'

a societal 'state of art'integration.

and
in the fading
internalised cry
of
'who am I '
who do I be
individuality darkens
for the 'I'
can one see ?

from the soloist
to the chorus
to the cacophony
the music lost
to the realms of 'noise'
the 'wow' of whistles
morphed now
to catcalls

and death comes
an attenuation of
identity
and the failing
as
the last vestige
departs amongst the wailings

marked by an image
in some hearts
small parts...and tall
memories .... both kinds
an epitah
and a picture....
on the wall.