Dream Companions
Daydreaming
With will unwavering
Riding a robust horse
Pakshiraj or Pegasus
The winning force
Empowers one to reach the distant shore
Sky height unforeseen before
But lagging in tenacity it’s often abandoned
Fading dream-flower crumbles or
Die in the bud.
Dreams of the night
Are often haphazard, delinked
Flashes from the recently viewed scenes
Or distorted pieces from life’s stories
Surface from the subconscious depth
Meaningless, devoid of wealth
Give us miseries remaining incomplete
Desires end in surfeit.
Dreams flowering here and there
Dry without getting care
Dreams are after all dreams
Rarely giving us wholesome hints
Of anything present, past or future;
Events in it are haphazard admixture
Of heterogeneous stories one forgets
Which a realist often neglects
Once he wakes up for routine action
Busy with things waiting for his attention.
Dreamers dream and dream
Without any reason, as it seems
Dreams are after all dreams.
If you consider that nothing finally fails
You can try to catch a dream by its tail
And rise up through memory’s trailing path
To its head to find if it’s worth.
© Aju Mukhopadhyay, 2018
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