English: In Egypt Internet is OFFLINE but struggle is ONLINE! (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Do Not Disturb.”

Do not disturb.

Do not disturb.

Do not disturb.

Disturb me offline and you’ll find me online.

As for disturbing me online, well, that’s not that easy.

I can always switch off, block or simply unplug.

After all, the web is permission-based—mine.

Online privacy follows offline privacy.

If you respect one, you’ll respect the other.

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Childhood Revisited.”

There are a lot of things I wish could be different,

But I know I can’t change a thing,

Let ghosts past be ghosts past,

The past cannot be changed,

And history is written by the victors.

It’s the present that ought to change,

Change to make a better future.

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “If I Had a Hammer.”

If I had a hammer,

If I had a gavel,

I’d drive my point in,

And restore order,

With a single blow of my mallet.

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In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma.”

I’m not mysterious,

I’m not enigmatic,

neither am I cryptic.

Something learnt a long time back,

It does not pay to be—misunderstood.

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Baggage Check.”

Complicated histories,

Simple men and women and children.

That’s the story of each human’s life.

Decisions based on past experiences,

decisions that will affect our futures.

Seems imbecilic.

Yet, what’s that saying again,

“If you forget history, you are condemned to repeat it.”

Hell, I’m confused, perplexed, stupefied, paralyzed!

English: Decisions, decisions. The road on the left is the “Glen Road” running down towards Loch Avich. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Fill In the Blank.”

Three people walk into a bar…

They never come out.

…….

……

……

They own the bar,

they live upstairs,

and they walked in after shutting down for the day.

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In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Mix Tape.”

The Man says he wants a mix tape,

A mix tape of my life, my future.

I guess I’ll go with instrumental,

To which I can rap out the lyrics of my life.

English: . Cassette Tape, picture taken by User:Seth Ilys on 15 Mar 2004 and released into the public domain. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Zone.”

Get lost!

Get lost as in immerse yourself, feel yourself,

enter the zone,

or as the new age gurus term it,

Practise mindfulness!

That’s the mantra.

Don’t do things in auto mode.

Just think about everything you do.

Right from tying your shoelaces to pushing the toilet seat up (or down).

Now, that’ll make your day.

Whew! Sounds exhausting!

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Worldly Encounters.”

The friendly extraterrestrial intoned in a somnolent voice,

“What book, song or movie would you recommend so that I can learn to be human from humans? Is it ‘Romeo and Juliet’?

Macbeth? or even The Lion King?

I pondered a while,

then said,

“if it’s a movie, you ought to catch, ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’,

If it’s a song, then perhaps two will do,

‘Money, money, money’ and ‘We are the World’,

and if it’s a book you want, you can’t go wrong reading the all-time bestseller, ‘The Bible’.

The Gods Must Be Crazy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)