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Dreams

Harish Balaji
2012 - 16, IT
Amazon, Quebec

Dreams… with all the glory, perfection and the sights set to ascend,

Maybe merely mirages, moving targets, or just a means to an end?
From King’s improvisation “I have a dream”, Till Dr. Kalam

Said they transform into thoughts and then action, did I dream
Of Dreams so dreamy, I dwell in them for epochs on end.

Grass be greener, victory sweeter and sunsets prettier,
In the colorful kaleidoscope that the mind may render.

Glorification, albeit unwarranted, paints a thorny path,

As a bed of roses, unnoticed pains yearn for an audience.
After all, it may rosy be, a tool for transforming reality,

But whence do they say, one might wonder, albeit unseeming

It’s not what it was to be, ones you look up to, at their zenith.

A dutiful student works harder, a talented girl pleads passionately,
To break free from the shackles from birth - gender, race or religion,

A parent who spends miserly on self, he saves up for a carefree child,

A fervent lover strives to salvage an abusive relationship,
Her children tolerate and hope she’s right, later hope she leaves,

A social service worker trying to help them, and others in trouble,
Tries to find a solution, tip the scales for the better, make a difference;

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