On how to write songs of experience

By Anupama Bhargava

Pretend to go native by being just an observer to other people's misery,

If you want to come in the eyes of others, and eventually for

The words that you would steal from life, either yours or theirs.

Color them in the shades of the evening, which would help to foreshadow

the tragedy that will be yet to come in your lines,

All before you stride away confidently to align them with the unusual connotations

of evil that has a lurking hint of kinship!

After all we all are primitive brutes and savages,

It's just that only some live long enough to realize it!