DREAM AND REALITY

The future once appeared farther and sweeter

With its beaming, redolent domain

Became the present, coming nearer and nearer

It began to teach life’s harsh terrain

I once had dreams like birds for spring

Much as I wish to realize them in the realm of facts

I found them shattered in the cruel ring

And replaced by bitter realities of its wild acts

Sweet fruits appeared on the branches for sure

I dreamed of tasting their sweetness to the core;

I thought some storm would make them fall before my door

The day came but I found them sour.

01st Aug, 1999

Published in Kakatiya Journal of English Studies, Warangal

Vol: 19/1999

Time

How you stepped in to this world is strange

Your endless flow is bound up in mystery

Your galloping speed for incessant change

Left imprints in ever living history.

The milestones mark your age on the milky way

It’s race on wheels at a high pace

A wayfarer’s journey without stay,

Yet, no trace of weariness on your face.

You manifest eroding powers in all circles

Even pliant limbs and sharp mind grow decrepit

The petal-soft countenance carves wrinkles.

The sculpture in a quake breaks into many a bit.

You resemble a river in its ceaseless glide

Your resolve is like the planets’ orbit

You look like an eternal traveler in his ride,

And travel like the flash of light brightly lit.

Five senses, in strict governance of the mind,

Fail to unravel and charter your powerful role

Mysterious are your ways to humankind.

Everything manifests under your iron control.

 

1^st August 1999 

Published in Triveni, Hyderbad & Kakatiya Journal of English Studies, Warangal

Triveni: Vol: 74. No: 4. Oct-Dec 2005
KJE: Vol: 9/1999.