Saturday 14 June 2008

Have a dream

Trying to chase someone’s dream
Devours most of our time
It looks futile when it’s not even sure
What is real and what is mime

For time may never come back,
At least in our acknowledged dimensions
But dreams if not realized returns
Like nightmares in haunted mansions

A dream’s purpose loses its value
If it not pursued by the original conception
It is like a borrowed success
Which is the biggest of deception

A true dream is different from the dream
That is not dreamt by the dreamer
It’s like a destination reached
By a different traveler

An idea of dream may not be
Enough to claim a fortune infinite
But an idea of dream is enough
To take pleasure in tiring days and sleepless nights

So, I plead to have a dream of yours
When it may be the most futile thought
Because a dreamy eyes and not its sight
Creates the difference between paradise and paradise lost

6 comments:

Mona said...

ah! There IS a very thin line between dream and reality...

Unfulfilled dreams do come back to haunt us....It is always the experiences that are complete that have come to their logical conclusions that have come to a full circle, that tend to disappear. Incomplete experiences will always come back to haunt you, begging for a completion...

To have dreams is to live...To dream you must have goals... & goals do not lie at the end of your road... Its the entire pathway which make the goals and which fulfill our dreams.

Ashraf said...

And then there is Mr. Rudyard Kipling saying:

"If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same"

Again everything boils down to that eternal fight between end and means

Unknown said...

I love this poem! I shall be back to read more...

Ankur Khare said...

A true dream is different from the dream That is not dreamt by the dreamer...

..Sometimes you make others dream ur purpose..What abt that..is that a not so true dream..

Mona said...

I have linked you :).

Ashraf said...

@Rambling prose
Thanks...U r welcome to come back again.



@Ankur Khare

I said:

"To realize your dream
Is hard work and determination
To help somebody realize his dream
Is real fascination"

and I said this too:

"A true dream is different from the dream
That is not dreamt by the dreamer
It’s like a destination reached
By a different traveler"

But then i also said:

"Is it possible to believe in something absolutely?
And still fail to live upto it in entirety!"

But this is not what i meant here. What i mean will bring another poem.


@Mona
Thanks and I linked u too :-)