Dreams

Impatient floodwaters at dams Waiting for shutters to open, A hodgepodge of puppets Excited to perform: at deep slumber, Waiting for my eyes to close, The naughty byproducts of my brain! I fly, glide: liberating! I sing with a celebrity: enthralling! I reach a different galaxy: wondering! I flow with a river: murmering! I see the illusory Utopia: interesting! I meet a hero of a great epic: marvelling! I chat with my childhood friend: giggling! Also I get to see and feel The serenity and purity of Heaven: glorifying! I find myself lost in a maze: panicking! I reach late to office: frustrating! I see hideous monsters: quivering! I get my opinions rejected: estranging! I get chased by a stranger: panting! I feel frozen and unable to move: benumbing! Also I see vortex of smoke spiralling At the centre of time and space: terrifying! A mishmash of baffling events, A drama with no sequence, Trains take turns unexpected At the criss-cross tracks; characters arrive: Some much awaited; some not so, To enact - breaking all logic. Sometimes in the middle of sleep I romance the vivid archipelagoes, The stunning reefs, turquoise lagoons, And the distant palm-fringed bays; I wake up with a start and see darkness Engulfing pitch black dark: despairing, As opposed to splendid landscape: hitherto Soothed my senses unbeknownst to me! Striking contrast - seize my joy! My eyelids droop and my eyes again Succumb to slumber gracefully. As sleep flows once more, smoothly, gently and rapidly, My fav sceneries reappear nimbly: The archipelagoes, reefs, and lagoons, Back from where they left me; Broken threads fixed, my spirit revives! A lost child finding his way Reaching his mother's arms overjoyed! Desires and wishes unconscious, Experiences frightening and disturbing, Pop up as dreams: the craftwork of brain. Amidst mixed emotions I float, drown, And as alarm bell rouses me To meet the new dawn, I wake up: Refreshed, peaceful, and content, A sound sleep I did get. Also reminding myself that Its time to enact now: The Drama of Life! The drama with sequences, of course!