Hold the Dream

Hope and Hold the dream Or you will die fast Life is the name of- struggling frantic procession, chaotic crowd, lunatic tsunami of the ocean, scream on the broken coast, scorching sunlight, ghostly thunderstorm, corpse lines for covid-19, war face of country to country, scenery of poverty, where you can lose yourself unanimously So, hold the dream fast or you will die easily Life is the name of- winter shawl of father, prayer-mat of mother, morning tea time of spouse, child’s undue demands, beautiful dawn of dewdrops, songs of flying birds, autumnal sun, Buddhist full-moon, love at first sight, elopement flight, honeymoon night, smiles in bridal bower, where you can lose yourself without a true life’s fair So, hold the dream fast or your will die with vanity care Life is the name of- a poetry, mixed up poetry morning, sipping tea through the gap of poet’s eyeglass, benumbed body of the newspaper on the corridor’s table, banded together bathing of ducks, velvet touching of blooming flower, reddish sky canvas of twilight, lights of the evening lamp, prayer of crickets in deserted room, where you can lose yourself in self-indulgence dome So, hold the dream fast or your will die without wisdom They say, "poet lives in future, the reader in present and critic in past" I say, "live in truth with hope, hold the dream and care the dream fast" ©Mahtab Bangalee Chattogram 09/11/2022