Yesterday's Dream*

I don’t want to sleep so soon Yesterday’s dream is still raw Triggering a dust-storm in the eyes Raising red dust, comes sleep Tuptup, flap the doors of lashes And just close by themselves Dream, like a flood, comes Carrying the broken logs of memories As if they were rafts I become homeless In yeasterday’s sleep I trembled in fear In yesterday’s flood No, not so soon Yesterday’s dream is still raw Dream, an invisible wound— Inflicted upon by a reluctant sleep That comes and goes at its will Dream, the secret of Death of imagination and fear It appears in thousand postures Like a friend, dead Aslo sparkles for once Amidst endless thoughts Yesterday’s dream— Still raw… 15 Oct 2010 00.09hrs *Original in Telugu by Vinnakota Ravishankar