faking with consent.

How do you do it? relationships i mean
By acting stupid?
Like growing up you do realise its all bullshit
no logic no sense…

half the time you're faking things
starting from stories to choices and preferences
the fake is so good that even warnings starts to sound vague
80% fakes... heh so what? (ours is 20%?)

jox seem overrated, being cringe gets trendy
how it all started, also gets edited involuntarily
in the subconscious, its all v.clear…
"its a facade, with flavours of pain to bear"

no promises feels real, filtered in dreams
expectations so high, judging things in glimpse
Where is it all ending up?
some diaries or notepads, some in insta reels?

are we still playing characters?
mimicking some movie scenes?
whats forcing us into this?
salt and pepper be social media and friends

or is it the story books we read in innocence?
are we stuck? or are we weaving a spider web?
is it the wrong spot? or actions need the change?
what if we stop now?

what confirms things are any better without this?
does getting out of this stop the fight?
or does it just start another one?

Padmaja Mazumder