Reflections, often a collage
Dreams are a conniving mirage
Realistic dreams, optimistic dreams, fantastic dreams,
drastic dreams
What / have are the “distant dreams”
Everything seems to be at a distance
Trying to approach something,
Something that is forever moving ahead
I take a pause, breathe and pursue
The search to incarcerate those dreams
My distant dreams
Hurdles, obstacles, endless roads
All leading towards the distant dream
And when I almost reach, the whole world spins
In a huge leap it transforms into another distant dream
A dream within a dream, a vicious circle
That never completes its spin
From the inception of a distant dream
Follows the deception of my being.
Is it real, or just another chimera
I budge closer, only to find another dream
Another distant expression yet
Another distant dream
Entangled in the web, trying to solve the maze
Gone astray somewhere in the labyrinth
Sinking deeper to profoundness
Struggling hard to find an escape
I reach emptiness
Right in the center of the maze
The nothingness solved the mystery
The frames resolved, patching up a story
Images from my past and the reeling of my present
The aspirations, inhibitions and expectations of the my future
Nothing had changed, except the vantage point
Standing there alone in the emptiness
Instantly resolving my distant dreams
I could clearly see them unravel
Those are pure reflections of thoughts – Yours and mine
Ritika. H. Nagpure
M.Planning
CEPT University
Annual NOSplan Magazine 2012