I DARE TO DREAM

"To dream of skies and achieve less is acceptable, but to dream less is a crime".These words of our former prez Dr Abdul Kalam Azad were directly etched on my heart as soon as i heard him on television.True , dreams make a man.What is one without dreams ?....just a mechanical being?? With getting up , surviving and then going to sleep his only chores? Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. Bigger the dreams ,bigger the price they demand. And it only takes a man of substance to pay this toll.....the man who is just not an idle dreamer but an achiever as well... a visionary......

I DARE TO DREAM

Sliding down the Deodar leaf, I chafe at its tip,
I think a little, as too much thought might pull my reins,
A little coy I am ; as the Sun sees through me;
I dive in to a hollow strange....

I am anxious; knowing not what holds for me – Ye Fate,
But I dream of consummation;
Holla ! Sleep thou not – my future celebate.

I kiss the moistness; elope with the humus,
I conceive, centuple,
I feel the fullness of the nature – so ecstatic, so jubilous.

I am a brook now and down the hill I go,
To grow in to a stream, now with all my might I flow,
'Left’ I turn and ‘Right’ I turn and sing a chanty here and there;
Hey curate you pray for me; oh mighty me – I am a river

I twist, I waltz, I waddle on my jazz;
Then slow I down with a placid notion
I break in to veins, in my labour pains
Cometh my ultimate reincarnation.

See my grandeur, from rands to Sargasso, I fathom my ego as a sea.
I say to ocean – "you did not parent me but boy I fathered thee.
Here I shout, "Attention this world, heed to my scream!"
I am a drop, The same little drop, But I dared to dream.........

Madhur Uniyal (copyright 2001)