Dreams rise up like a ring of ashes
From the burnt up cigarette kept on the ashtray
As if waiting for someone for a last drag
Like the flame of the candle flickering for the last time
As the last cry of the wolf before the dawn breaks in
As I slowly tread into a sleepy world still covered with
numbness of yesterday’s dreams and the crouching tomorrow .
As the last sigh before the unshed tears sets in the heart forever.
My face still dry with unshed tears,
it’s getting wet with drops of moistness of dreams
in a state of melting
as the ice candy on the tongue
As the ice-candy melts on my tongue ,
fresh air from the morning touches my tongue.
Yesterday’s stillness sets in,
giving way to today’s uncertainty
I see masks hanging all around me
Shirts, t-shirts, blazers and what not
All for different occasions
I am confused!!
Which one do I choose?
Dreams of tomorrow hidden in yesterday’s sleep
melting away, dreams hanging up
like a dust in the fog..
Yesterday’s misty dreams of love, pain, yonder, bliss
give way to today’s mask of
grinning faces, smirky faces, smiling faces, nodding faces
All the long sweet conversations we had in the dreams
Are transformed into today’s unspoken silence between us.
Absence seems more real than the presence
silence seems more eloquent than the utterance
It is eternal; it is always with me,
it is within me, I could feel it
it moves with me, shows me the path
consoles me .
I open my eyes ,
but only to be blinded by the light,
everything around seems distant
as if mired in a mist of dream,
