Taking Sides

so, do you want to be a Rhodes scholar and take blood-money from De Beers or do you want to be an IAS officer and wield determinative power over people your grandmother's age and wisdom?

time has come to choose sides in a game that's neither binary, nor zero-sum, in a war where there are no victories and defeats but where there is a battlefield.

are you hiding below your cot where cockroaches run riot?
are you hiding with the skeletons inside your cupboard?
are you hiding with the shames they have stuffed inside your closet?
are you crying for love?

so, do you want to be like the hooded dude in the Seventh Seal or do you want to be like the knight-dude that played chess with him?

time has come to choose sides in a game which is also a war
and there are no victories and defeats, save and except the conditions as applied by the rules of the game which is also a war.
rulers make these rules
and turn into judges
and participate in the process

mad dogs vie for piece of meat
sad dogs lick tick off fluff
and clouds carry colours of their sadness when contours of dusk stretch across horizons
twilight gives no damn to these blasted binaries

so, which side are you on?