Identity Card

Losing My Identity Card I took a ride on the other side of a wide ocean and wilder skies People spoke there In languages unknown to us Only two of us are in our mother tongue That night I really travelled, too, far And never thought of retracing back I did not ask myself anything With excitement I kept walking On the beautiful oceanic waves Though I lost my returning track. Yet I did not mind Then the waves went really high And we rushed into a building It was octagon in shape And was very clean Ten feet wide And long was thirteen feet Then the dykes of confusion broke And I understood why we were there In an island we are totally strangers Among the unknowns We two are only together. I could not believe Around us the air could be crisp And the sky could be wide and blue And would fall upon us With a sound drip, drip Yet I feared something could go wrong And we might have to face an unexpected worse. What it would be like if nobody was impressed or phased by Then I felt a strong jerk followed by an earthquake. And my dreamy journey is over And I silently woke up Though I did not sleep Since then been searching my wallet Containing my identity card On the rough soil of hard world And in the harsh reality of real life After silently walking off the oceanic waves.