CHASING ‘ENOUGH’

Hurtling, stumbling

Falling, rumbling

Fighting against fate

Running against time

…I go

Rushed by deadlines

Corporate landmines

Lamenting lost opportunity

Shifting sands of sanity

…I go

Caught in the

productivity trap

Negotiating the

remuneration gap

Ticking to-do lists,

Work-life balance twists

…I go

Drowned in gratification

Wedded to optimization

Trading creativity

for productivity

Exchanging freedom

for captivity

…I go

Flattening the

curve of being

Mired in the

blindness of seeing

In pursuit of efficiency

Traversing the tough,

Reining the rough

Chasing the illusion

called ENOUGH

…I go

Till I reach the edge

and skid to a stop

To find…

There’s no ENOUGH

even at the top

Nothing to show

Nowhere to go

ENOUGH lay buried

all along

under those miles

of spreadsheets

I surrendered my life to

pathetic counterfeits

At what point in time

did life become and feel

Less a human

More a hamster wheel?

– Puja Bhakoo

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