Reveille

REVEILLE Today I found myself walking on a path through the wood All the while I had been thinking, unaware of where I trod Idle musing, rumination stole a long stretch of ‘real’ time (Despite my justification - ‘I was making up a rhyme!’) On awaking from my absence in day-time somnambulation I perceived a brighter world as I resumed self navigation Some days I find myself moving on the path through my life Wake in wonder that I got here through confusions that were rife Via myriad of turning points that marked the final track Made each instant unpredictable, capricious, looking back There were times when choice was made by random forces in collision But between, there were those rare moments of wide awake decision Today I found myself dreaming of a path with purpose known Such dreams are not of sleep but of a wakefulness full blown Thus the real and the imagined coexist and integrate Let there also be uncertainty, the spice to stimulate While stress tempts anaesthetising mind diversions from the shelf Let me wake from unawareness and perhaps may find myself