Nov 25, 2024
Nov 25, 2024
If we were to take a holistic view, it wouldn’t be wrong to conclude that dreams are as much of an illusion as reality. By distilling the effects of happenings of both the conscious and unconscious realms they answer the whys and why- not’s with tender eloquence. Make the most of them from whatever you remember by understanding that they aid the cause to just ‘be in the moment’, by unfolding interesting aspects of life, helping us to become more aware, productive and contented individuals.Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson.
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
- Edgar Allan Poe
22-Mar-2013
More by : Bhavna Mathur
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DREAMS DO COME THROUGH Me think I remember a poem which says Sleep to dream or dream to sleep! I say dreams come through in many ways Especially when your sleep is deep It can happen even to the simple fellow To shorten that eastern passage around Africa Many had dreams including Marco Polo Who founded the desired Silk Road to China Even braver was Christopher Columbus He had to cross the stormy oceans for sure There is some who still fret and make fuss That Amerigo Vespucci did it long before He thought he was going east with the nice breeze But he ended up in the West sailing Santa Maria And discovered1 America and the West Indies Followed by his other ships the Pinta and Nina Long! long before all of them Cornered by the malicious army of Egyptians Moses had the biggest problem Parting the seas to escape those cruel Romans Some producers of modern Hollywood Put the Ten Commandments on film Made our dreams came true so we could All witness the mighty power of Him Not long ago a simple naked fakir2 of India Mohandas Gandhi had a giant of a dream To gain Independence with Satyagrah3 Making a united India with his dream team But religion can be so bad sometimes Nehru and Gandhi wanted one India Men can become real snakes in slimes Jinnah wanted a Pakistani nation Despite Nehru’s and Gandhi’s pleas at par Jinnah still clamored for partition Resulting with the two nations still at war Followers of Gandhi like the Rev. King Dreamt of peace with the two races The Rev. Martin Luther King had the sting Despite all the bigoted racial menaces The blacks and whites finally came together This dream was cemented by Barak Obama They thought they’d never see a black brother Occupying the White House in America Once the only British country in South America Dr Cheddi Jagan’s dreams came through partly Making a people with one destiny in Guyana ‘though he was jailed at Sibley Hall wrongfully By LFS Burnham who was once his pal And for 28 years was sabotaged politically Eventually the dictator Burnham did fall And Dr. Jagan again won democratically A man waited in jail in Robben Island And for 28years he dreamt of freedom Through global intervention’s demand Eventually his bloody release did come For black South Africans the majority Then Mandela took power anew Casting aside the white ruled minority And many dreams came through In Canada’s we had a peculiar dish Dreams of the French Quebecois united With all the peace loving English A peace Pierre Trudeau did cemented Bringing home the constitution Despite the attempt of Dief our Chief Stopping the Quebec’s separation Got all under the flag of the maple leaf The greatest woman with a mountain of strength The indomitable modern day Saint Mother Teresa Whose charity touched India’s width and length Resulting in building her Peace Village in India Where others, Hindus and Muslims came She was rewarded with the Noble Peace Prize For feeding the sick, the poor and the lame Dreams came through for millions not long ago When Obama became president of the USA This was very impossible many thought so Where the colour barrier held many at bay This cause inspiration to heighten A real black man in the Whitehouse finally Planting his own vegetable garden Building self esteem to downtrodden globally Every year students fulfill their dreams At graduation time tossing their hats in the air Hoping for betterment or so it seems Like their parents hoping to get their share Addicted alcoholics have dreams too Suffering and living one day at a time So are the smokers which is nothing new As they continue to cough up slime Fishermen go to sea and cast their nets Hoping today they’ll catch the big one Addicted gamblers also cast their bets Stupidly thinking they are having fun Some folks in Sri Lankha and Darfur Have simple dreams of finding food and shelter Their crime is that they are so poor As warlords having them running helter skelter And on the sidelines the wolves stand They too have dreams of their own A fat strayed calf is their demand As they listen for its motherly moan The anteater too dream with it’s sticky tongue Looking for a nice juicy packed ant-hill Silently moving up a mound without a sound Today he may get his dreams and his fill As they too endlessly search near and far Helping the crops of the farmers thrive The bees dream of flowers to gather nectar As they busily make honey in their hive And as the full of dreams world goes on All hope one day theirs too may come through Some would win and some die and gone Some will be happy and many would be blue |