‘Please do the needful’ ~ every other office email by Rahul Singh

Impossible to avoid
deeds brimming with needs. Needs
spilling, staining your days, true
only for dream-chasing demigods
who know what passion means and claim
that it needs to be followed - measured
in ticks on bucket lists picked
online.
	Bores like me stick
to a more conventional meaning
of needful - PPTs and Excel sheets;
bear the weight of suspicion
in matters of heart. Routine repeats

itself and we painfully endure.
Didn’t Ghalib say more pain’s pain’s only cure?

Rahul Singh lives in Bangalore (India) and works as a Data Scientist in a start-up. He is from Allahabad and writes in English and Hindi.