Thursday, September 22, 2011

A Night For Conscious Dreams


Lying awake on my bed it seems,
To be a night for conscious dreams,
Of any fantasy, or a nightmare,
That plagues you in bottomless despair.


As my eyes adjust to the dark,
I squint at the shadows of a life unmasked.
A moment to reflect on the day gone past,
A continuum of experiences rushing by thick and fast.


Do I dwell on the good or learn from the bad?
Do I bask in the joy or wallow in the sad?
Do I make new promises or break the old?
The questions abound, the answers untold.


I blink, I think, I dream, I yearn,
To unravel the mysteries my reveries churn,
The mind turns foggy in this labyrinthine maze,
As sleep envelopes me in a groggy haze.

-- Harshvardhan.















Painting: 'Night Dreams' by Yuri Pysar.

5 comments:

  1. I like the image of dreams that the story portrays and I like the fact that you're rhyming :)

    cheers!

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  2. yeah nice to see a rhyming verse.. :)

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  3. Beautifully penned down. And, I love how descriptive it is :)

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  4. Thank you for the kind words, Pallav, Aria and Anjali. Encouragement is always nice.
    This was penned down in a moment of sheer suffocation and despair. So yes, it helped release the stress. :)

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  5. Very apt.
    The rhyming makes it all the more amazing : )

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