I often think <br />The eye within the eye <br />Of the soul is tranquil <br />But it can cause for all <br />A storm in rage. <br /> <br />Around the body, <br />I too have a cluster of names. <br />A father and a husband, <br />An uncle and a great father <br />A brother and a cousin... <br />I am a refugee in these names. <br /> <br />The glances over the skies beyond the seas <br />Too display the same sketches <br />Many are refugees in their names. <br />The east and the west converge <br />And let out a cry of union. <br />A blue star may leave a sigh! <br /> <br />Ambition will be my small city <br />Unto which I may flee from these cluches. <br />Then what to end with? <br />A pilgrimage of amazing nothingness.... <br />Ha, ha ha... let me live <br />In this small hamlet of contentment. <br /> <br />My heartaches and headaches are merciful <br />For they do not come together. <br />For the missing moon I do not stretch out <br />My smiles and tears are interwoven <br />For they occur untimely ever. <br />I see a flock of swans moving towards <br />A lake with a depth unmeasured. <br />They too often quack at my notions! <br /> <br />The aged flowers will soon fall <br />Remembering the long lost fragrance they had. <br />I would like to search for bottled perfumes <br />For my limbs cannot walk up to young flowers <br />They may bloom for a while and fall <br />And I have to keep vigil for a season. <br /> <br />Death is ready to strike me too <br />Eyeball to eyeball, I can see him <br />But a little more work has to be done <br />So wait for me little long, you wood and fire <br />Later a song will rise from my pyre <br />And it will be a breeze. <br />Just now what I want is <br />Yet another voyage to dreams! <br />I sleep for a few dreams..<br /><br />M.D Dinesh Nair<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-sleep-for-a-few-dreams/
