An honest thought,
A heartfelt desire,
An insatiable longing for something,
(at times against the common norms)
And the heart sinks with realization…..
The magnum opus dreams fall as fast as they had risen.
Reality strikes hard.
Thousands of doubts flood the brain
Leaving no scope for anything to flourish .
The tug of war between fact and fiction,
Right and wrong, wanting and getting,
Takes a heavy toll.
All the warnings and forebodings,
predictions and snide remarks
elbow their way to the forefront
canopying even the slightest possibility
of going ahead and metamorphosing one’s dream
into reality.
Just as this rendezvous with the feelings
threatens never to end,
a surreal warmth fills the body
pushing all the negative emotions
into oblivion.
It caresses the soul
and teaches it to dream again.
It acts like the guiding light,
the voice of the angel
rekindling the flame of optimism
that had been mercilessly extinguished.
It doesnot make any promises,
It does not guarantee anything for sure,
All it ensures is peace of mind.
It calls itself ‘HOPE’.
13 comments:
and it's something i hate - "hope" - the root evil - the creator of expectations
no, am not against dreaming, it's alright to dream, it's alright to chase it too. what am against is making a dream ur ultimate goal and trying to fulfil it. maybe i am not brave enough to dream and chase it and bear the so-called losses or maybe i've just woken up to the fact that dreams are temporary, it's achievement isn't as important as the attempt to reach them.
success and failure is something that is such a personal perception.. it can't be global one.. and what after u r "Successful"? you'll bask in the glory for sometime and then again you would want more.. isn't that ridiculous.. i mean.. we'll never stop wanting more.. the dissatisfied us.. well.. they say i'm not ambitious.. yeah.. they are so right.. but i'm not lazy.. i disagree to that.. you may call me a coward to an extent.. but certainly not lazy.. all i can say is i am trying to not want more and trying to stay satisfied with all i have and all i am getting and all i don't have and all that am not getting.
phew! ok.. apart from all the bullcrap that i've typed.. hehehe.. nice effort! really liked it! :)
Missy Poet,
luvd these lines:
"Just as this rendezvous with the feelings
threatens never to end,
an surreal warmth fills the body"
"Rendezvous with feelings" is calm n soothing.It has got a soul.
2de I got to kno whats cooking in ur head & i like it.
@ SUK- Weird! hope is the only thing iam left with:( agreed that hope creates expectations but it also makes u realize that those expectations may not come true. u r mentally prepared for the worst. its better to have smthn to luk fwd to, rather than lead a helpless, hapless life. remember, ystrday u told me to keep trying and not to lose heart? i was so pissed that i went off to sleep after dat. i woke up "hoping" for things to be better. else i wud have gone on brooding the entire evening!
@debasish- yeah...iam glad i found the right words to express what i wanted to. There is loads cooking in my head ;) and kudos to u if u think u could figure out a part of it :)
Hmm, there's a "lot" in that poem. I wonder if it's the same bug that bit you.
@ swap- :)and i thot 'I' was the 'poet' in this case and hence had the right to keep all those mysteries surrounding this poem alive. but somehow ,everyone except me, seems to have figured out something bout it:P 'Bug'?? The so-called "manipal bug"?? lol.
It's a metaphor. Wait, I hate that bug as well :P
@swap- hahaa! i know its a metaphore. u prolly didnt get the joke :)
Try to stay for a year in any of the rooms on the same corridor as that of 4146, 10th block and you'll take back your joke, ;P
i abso loved those lines...hope is what drives d world, n i havent ever seen a better way of putting it!
@swap- i think i have an idea bout wat ur talking bout and i sure dont envy u :P
@gunj- thank u :)
heyy i did read ur poem couple a dazz bak bt cudnt comment:(...itzz a lovelyyyyy poem:)nd yea at d end 'HOPE' is all dat v live on;)
its so gud yaar!!!
start wrting on abstracts too.....:)
n on nature
n write mor epoems often!!!
u r gud at this....a lot more than u realise...:)
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