A Dream That I Want No Awake Poem by Premkumar Khumanthem

It is a dream

A dream that

I want no awake


Oh Nidra! Keep your feet

On my two closing eyes

Know no Rest

Until u die



The brew I stir

In this cauldron

You know;

I am inventing

A smell to win

Over


Babyrose, babyrose babyrose

Bring me all the babyrose of the world

Oh Flora! You know I need babyrose

Bear me from your tender womb

The Virgin Babyrose as white as the snow

I am mixing it

With the juice

That comes from

From the crushed

Papaya tree


Yes... Oh Yes....

It's finished...


Devil...! Come, Come Devil...

Go there, to her,

Make her smell this brew...

I will wait for you

till you return

with flying colours


Come devil... come

Did you make her smell? ?

Did she cry my name? ?


I know she will....

I know she will...

It was made from the tear of a purest of heart.


Oh Arjuna my friend!

Please bring her to me by your magic arrow.


I win...

I win...

She will be mine.

Mine only.

Mine only.


What is this water in my eyes?

Is this a tear?

Oh... I was having a dream.

Oh... I was having a dream.



editors note:

Nidra - a hindu goddess of sleep.

Papaya- is another name of the poet.

Flora - Greek Goddess of Flower.

Arjuna - Pandavas brother in
Mahabharata, a Hindu epic.