Shadows

We ran up to him.
He looked frightened and shocked
He tried to run.
But our blades caught up with him.
He fell, he cried
A wounded prey.
We stopped when he cried no more.
And others cried for him.

They say life is a cycle.
It catches up to you someday.

I turn back I see shadows.
The ones with sharp blades.
I try to run and hide.
They chase me everywhere.
A cornered prey.
The shadows are here.
I am too tired to run.
I cry, I plead.
They don't stop until I could cry no more,
 and others cry for me.

Words

Words are echoing in my mind.
There is no coherent thought in them.
They just jump around in an urge to get out. 
Me first me first, they say.
They don't realise they aren't ready to walk on their own.
They have to stand behind an idea and grow.
Or they are mere words without a soul.

Few are a bit more braver than the rest.
They group with their half brothers and create unrest, even getting heard at times.

They wander aimlessly for a while, gliding along any path they see.
For they don't have a destination in their mind and are lost without doubt

The newbies see their brothers' fate from afar.
They fear to set forth or even make a sound.
They wait for someone strong to take them ashore.
They wait and get old.
They get choked and never get heard.

Words.

Joppan Or Murugan

All the hullabaloo over the movies Puli murugan and Thoppil Joppan is far too idiotic I must say. Mammootty and Mohanlal are legends. We don't want anyone to keep reminding us how good they are. We already know that for a fact. In their respective long careers, along with many masterpieces they have given us mediocre and outright rubbish movies. That's the part and parcel of the job they have chosen. And it is not necessary that we have to celebrate each one of them. If it is not good, it is not good. Simple as that. They know that too. But we as fans can't accept it. We have to prove our favourite actor's movie has done better than his counterpart's recent work.

We, Malayalis, are considered smart and reasonable people. But we don't look so smart indulging in mudslinging and throwing insults in their names. It's not that I don't get the concept of Internet trolling or so. Just that  it doesn't look so healthy. But that is not what that really concerns me. While we fight over their mediocre works and make it successful in theatres, a movie like Guppy fails to make an impact. A movie like Sudhivalmikam is less celebrated here.  They have to make way for bigger movies. Sadly, big not in the sense of content. 

Kavi Udheshichathu, a movie that got released alongside Joppan and Murugan, is more likely to be stifled irrespective of whether it is good or not.

It's high time that we grow up.