Pretension of extreme knowledge.
Overwhelmed with lack of confidence.
Slowly makes the mind tenuous.
This process becomes continuous.
Layers of overconfidence and letting others down.
Seems to have mind with a golden crown.
What happens next?
Impatience overcomes the patience.
Calmness and sanity become absent.
This is followed by…
Red eyes and angry face.
Opens the gate of proverbial rate race.
Opens the gate of proverbial rat race.
–Ashish Kumar
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🙂 🙂
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Wow ❤️
Loved how gradually it went! A beautiful piece 😇
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Thanks a lot for reading and liking it… Humbled.. 🙂
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Woww!! It’s so wonderful! A fantastic piece!😊
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Thank you so much… Humbled to know you found the poem wonderful… 👍🙄
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Most welcome!
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Humbled… Always a pleasure to hear from you… 🙂
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😊😊
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Rat race is counter productive. Beautifully brought out in verses.
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Thank you so much sir for your visit and taking time to go through my post… Glad you liked it… 🙏
Welcome to my world of writing… Keep visiting 🤗🙏
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You are a talented writer. I enjoy your way of writing. Keep penning. Stay happy and blessed 😊
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A big compliment for me sir… I am humbled to know the same… Thanks a million for your kind words and blessings… Means a lot… 🙂
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It’s my pleasure, friend!!
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My pleasure too to have your visit and views… 🙂
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So much wisdom and truth in this, and I loved how rhythm and the progression of the poem.
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Thank you so much for reading and liking it. Appreciation from your side means a lot.. Humbled… 🙂
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🙏🏼💛
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Rat race it is! Everybody is in a hurry, but nobody reaches on time. In this hurry to win, we forget how many we run and how many we stomp. Rat race it is. Awesome read.
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Yes, indeed. It is a rat race as you pointed out… everyone is in hurry to go to some unknown destination…
Thanks a lot Hema for reading and sharing your insights… 😉
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Great poem. ☺️ What makes it even sadder is the fact that it is absolutely true!
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Yes, I understand and this is the whole point I have tried to portray in this poem… Glad to know you found the crux of it… Thanks a lot for reading and sharing your views… means a lot… 🙂
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The pleasure is mine !!
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We are not above anyone, we’re the part of the people, our community. If we pay attention to the events and activities happening around us, trying to understand them, it will be easier to recognise the common interest.
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Agree, we are the part of a community… This poem is about one of the traits which few posses and that trait is “pretension of omniscience” and that too with overconfidence. Nobody knows everything and nobody is perfect…
There are few who enjoys letting others down and in turn few start doing the same with extreme knowledge that they pretends. Here comes that pretension of omniscience… This goes on and the one who follows such pretentious omniscience becomes a “proverbial rat race”… This is the crux which I have tried to bring in this poem… This poem is a satire on those omniscient people.
Thanks a lot Lokesh for reading and sharing your thoughts.. 🙂
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wonderful piece! ✨
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Thank you so much… Glad you liked it… 🙂
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Beautiful piece of writing
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Thanks a lot dear… glad you liked it… 🙂
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Nice one😊
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Thanks a lot for reading and liking it… Welcome to my world of writing… Keep visiting… 🙂
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