Stream

Without sleep I am as sleep has gone to a place unknown Whose path I know not, nor hear I there any message called gracious Only a distant land remains awake under my feet And its shadow stands right in the chest of a rivulet Yet I hear a fine tune of slumber And see them approaching to me by breaking the path In this condition my wishes have died and my love is lost its language And without expression ideas cannot be interwoven, we all know So my disdain existence not only grows but also bears sleepless night. Wish not to go to the land of sleep Nor wish I to jump and hang nor wish to cut Yet I have to go at last as it is not under my control Yet they are there I mean somewhere in my existential crisis And they are left awake There everyone goes the king goes the emperor goes Goes all the sycophants and subordinates as it is a levelling world A world of no highs no lows and full of fragrance of soil. Here fire is pampered and its physical dance gets an awkward posture When they raise their hands and with heart's content sing the song of silence Here and there my sleep strolls From this room to that room while it walks it rides on the smooth skin of the mirror Glides on the shiny bosom of a wall Or crosses the heated barrel of an assassin Before it stares blank at the window pane But I could not touch as it is too close too far Yet in this my dreams dissolve into a liquid which is the abode of bowels Which I know that do not know the streets, the dense jungle The green hills and the deep valleys Not even know life nor the tough crow When someone is drown in a complete silence Then remain awake only his meaningless grief And Heraclitus says, life move on every moment like a river A flow does not have a double side, so life Life walks and distracts touching the edge of flooding fog I go into deep sleep after keeping my limbs in slumber Trees stoop down and stare at the cremation of the dead Dawn lays its rays on the path Keeping the idea in its mind to shoot the darkness Yet darkness remains, it does not vanish nor does it disappear.