Of Dreams & Peace Poem by KATOCH P C K PREM

Of Dreams & Peace

To enquire into the options
of peace, disturbs
as if an eel and a mystery
glide over the wise intellects,
and withdraw as men of power
and trust yearn for world peace,
but fail to find the gist and essence,
the core of times and utter chaos,
even as violence stalks
in silence registers frequency, explodes
and destroys men and material,
amidst cries, wailings and futility
and speaks of peace and harmony,
a tragic phenomenon.
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The saint in man dozes, roars
and catnaps in dreams,
and visits and flies over the ruins
of forts, castles, and floating cities,
uncertain congress to spread peace
on anarchy infested man and earth,
and the minds of power-drunk animals'
in man, who talks of peace
but nurtures violence and creates bombs
of contests, challenges, contrasts and rivalries,
of annihilation even though holy men
of state patronage guide to Ahura Mazda
the lord of Light and the Yama of Darkness
teach harmony, love and warmth,
fashioned in five-starred slimy and foul bedrooms
with glasses of stimulants endless.
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Lethal stay dreams as I visit the foreign lands
with the holy men not so sacred
yet declare wildly
the phantoms of hopes and peace.

I do not know why I fly and dream
of the sea and feral inferno
I cannot bless a fire god to eat forest
and tell Indra to defeat Krishna and Arjuna
in the background of modern anarchy
and stock up peace fervently.

I know I live in peace times of dark region
where I eagerly search the god of light
find none and so I regret
as the pleas for harmony defy logic.
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I wait for the oracle in the noise of silence,
of solitude and of absolute loneliness,
for it will herald the arrival
of world peace and harmony.

Yes, a voice tells me to avoid clamour
of wealth, of slogans and of material joys
not me only but the whole world
and everyone will live in peace?
and the suggestion questions.
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