Poem: A Poet Desires
By Dr. Archan Mehta
Should you had been to ask me:
Why do you dream?
I must reply:
Why, I don’t know for certain.
I can’t clarify it logically,
Rationally, however I dream anyway.
Unapologetically, with out your permission.
I’m not involved
If the lots discover that bizarre.
So what?
I’ll dream anyway.
A younger woman, who found
My behavior, known as me a
Freak of nature and ran away.
So be it: I’ll dream.
I’ll fall silent or I’ll scream.
That is solely a dream, my dream.
I don’t owe you an evidence,
So don’t anticipate one.
You can be disillusioned,
I warn you, so
Thoughts your individual enterprise:
By the way in which, please and thanks,
To be well mannered, however let me dream.
I dream and enter a no man’s land.
However I demand solitude and silence.
I need to be left alone, so
That I can dream. I promise
I’ll convey you no hassle.
I imply you no hurt. I’m,
In any case, a person of goodwill,
A cultured individual, a gentleman.
However depart me alone,
So I can dream.
If I’m struck by an concept,
Instantly and unexpectedly,
I promise to go away your fuel
Station, comfort retailer,
Restaurant, lodge, and so forth.
I’ll retire to a forest,
Jungle, park or backyard,
So I can dream
In splendid isolation.
I’ll select to sing
With out disturbing the peace,
However I’ll dream.
In any case, dreaming
Positive beats our ugly
Actuality fingers down:
Greenback for greenback,
Euro for euro,
Rupee for rupee,
And pound for pound.
I tilt my head in the direction of
The sky and I begin to dream.
I could make excuses to dream.
No issues. No points.
No worries. No pressures.
Keep away from me,
Please, in order that I can dream.
And don’t anticipate me
To be regular else
I’ll loudly scream.
I’m engaged to my dream.
By the way in which, simply in your
Type data, normality
Is overrated and mediocrity
Is a advantage on the earth of at present.
So let me keep away from the crowds,
Mobs and herds as a result of
I need to dream.
Please don’t create
Obstacles for me.
Please don’t manipulate
The narrative.
Please don’t gossip and
Unfold rumors and say,
For instance, that I
Am a loopy individual.
I want to enter this
Inferno of nothingness:
This void pleases me
And I like oblivion.
I want to stay obscure,
Irrelevant, nearly as
If I don’t even exist.
I’m ready to do nearly
Something, so I can dream.
I don’t need to be a
Productive and contributing
Member of society, for I
Want to dream. I don’t
Need to be accountable,
Accountable, respectable,
And an grownup. I favor to
Be like a toddler who desires.
I’ve no objective to succeed in,
I’ve nothing to purchase or promote,
I simply imagine in my dream.
I’ve belief in my dream.
I’m a person of religion,
So I dream: it takes a
Leap of religion to dream.
I dropped out of society,
A very long time in the past:
Consumerism, capitalism,
Materialism, possession,
Privatization, hoarding,
Displaying off, and so forth.
Appeared relatively
Vulgar to me.
No, thanks.
I’ve few wants
And I understand how
To dwell inside
My means, so I
Have the liberty to dream.
Once I dream,
I can stroll on water,
I can convey the
Lifeless again to life,
I can nurture infants and
Present them a great time,
Launch a caged hen
Into the huge, open sky,
I can persuade a turtle
To emerge from it shell,
And supply solace
To a grieving widow.
Once I dream,
I’m able to rid
Our planet of
Weapons of mass destruction,
I can restore the steadiness
Of nature and stop
Illnesses and pandemics,
I’m able to forestall
Pure disasters,
And the mass slaughter
Of harmless lives,
I can assist just a little,
Previous woman cross
The road and
Carry her groceries
And ship her
To her house,
Secure and sound.
I dream to revive
Eyes to the blind,
Remedy those that are sick,
Suck the poison out of
A affected person struggling
From terminal most cancers,
And feed our ravenous
World with loaves,
Fishes, mangoes, honey,
Sweets, and smoothies.
I might be good and noble
And selfless solely
In my desires.
I could make this world
A greater place solely
If I’m allowed to dream.
So, you wild issues,
Why don’t you spare
A second to dream?
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Dr. Archan Mehta has earned a PhD. in Administration. At present, Dr. Mehta is a Freelance Author and Marketing consultant primarily based in India. Through the years, Dr. Mehta’s artistic work has been featured in quite a few publications in India, U.Okay., USA, South Africa and the Center East. In his free time, Dr. Mehta likes to walk within the outside, get together with shut buddies, hearken to music and keep on high of present occasions. Dr. Mehta can be keen on meditation. Please be at liberty to succeed in out to Dr. Mehta at
