Dream Open Eyed

 

Dreams are horrible

they disturb your sleep,

lift you to layers of unreality

enchanting till the eyes open

to the new sun for a new

lotus to a fresh bloom.

 

Is this what we call dream

to be in a dream heaven

drinking the elixir of immortality?

But when the eyes open to your

naked palace your children start

nagging -No - MoM not this

No Maggie -today,

you laugh at your cracked dreams.

 

Dreams are imagination electrified

by your ambition and trust

in your abilities, talents

in your creativity and the desire

to leave something

for posterity to dream on.

 

A Dreamer is one

whose eyes are always open

he dreams big with open eyes

form and substance

beauty and essence

and all with a tinge of reality.

 

O dreamers don't idle away

in fancy what your

imagination gives you as vision:

build your dreams into

fancies of life.

Sabita Sahu