~ Foreword ~
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts” Khalil Gibran
If I pay heed to the illustrious Gibran, it would seem I am not at peace with my thoughts as I am going to be filling page after page. In all sincerity, he is right, my mind is somewhat disturbed. The question is, why to go on and bother others if everyone has already gotten enough on their plates, sometimes, over the brim? Perhaps, the reader would be curious to know that, despite all my worries, deep down I am strangely at peace. This would be a part of the answer. Borrowing from another poet, I am going to be talking about “good and evil, fierce hatred, and sacred love” – matters worth of a talk! Though I have a knack for poetry as the reader might have surmised, I will be breaking down these sublime or otherwise matters into smaller particles, looking at them 'through the microscope', finding some patterns and regularities, and doing all that in a far from poetic way. By and large, it is going to be a prosy read. There is a valid reason behind that though. They say: devil is in the details. By yanking him out and bringing to the daylight – often, at the expense of poetic embellishments – it may be possible to banish the accuser. As his grip is that of iron, this is, basically, my foremost concern.