Tuesday, July 24, 2007

My Dreams

I think I am someone who is caught between reality and dreams. These two are extreme ends in life for me right now. I do not know if they would ever intersect for me. They may, they may not.
All my life, right from childhood I have just been looking towards my dreams; building new dreams every other day.
They have been growing with me, changing with me, taking new shapes with new realizations. They have grown a thick haze in front of me that I cannot imagine a life beyond them. A life without these dreams is no life for me. I have
grown up with hopes that one day these dreams will turn into reality and life would be wonderful forever. This has
been my outline of a happy life. When I look at this life, it seems so cheerful, so full of fun. It seems to me to
be my only path to eternal joy.
But now I am feeling tired of chasing these dreams. I have been running all the while, but still they seem distant.
The distance seems to be forever the same. Tired, I turned around to look at reality. It was so close. I can just
reach out for it. It has probably been following me all the while I was running behind my dreams. It is smiling at
me. But it does not look so cheerful and happy , especially when I look at it after looking at my dreams. It has a
smile I cannot decipher, but I am feeling scared ot it. I don’t understand what it means. It eludes me. Not knowing
what reality is makes it more and more scary. And I tend to run away from it.
But now where do I go? Dreams seem forever away and Reality is scary. Do I settle for reality or do I continue my
chase for my dreams hoping they would one day turn into a sweet reality?

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आकाशात उडणारे जेव्हां जमीनीवर चालू लागतात
आणी चक्क् माणसांशी बोलू लागतात...

खरं म्हणजे अशात् इतरांनाच आश्च्रर्य व्हावं
ह्यांना धरतीवर बघुन माणसांनीच घाबरावं
पण वर हेच् शिमगा करतात
म्हणे, माणसं आम्हाला घाबरवतात

आकाशी उडतांना तर सर्वच् जवळ होते
चंद्र, सुर्य, तारे नेहेमीच आटोक्यात होते
मग आता, आकाश सोडुन इथे काय भावलं?
हे पाखरु आज् जमीनीकडे का धावलं?

म्हणे, सुर्य लांबूनच गुलाबी वाटतो
जवळ जाता नुसताच् जाळतो
तारे आहेत लांबच-लांब रे सारे
चंद्र् ही एकच् आणी कितीतरी बघणारे

लागली तहान ह्या जीवाला
सोडुन अंबर हा तुजपाशी आला
आता तू तरी ह्यास ह्रदयाशी घेशील का?
स्वप्न नको, मला माझे जीवन देशील का?

मला ही होते स्वप्न ताऱ्यांचेच जेव्हां
आकाशी स्वच्छंद् विहरतांना तू दिसलीस तेव्हां
तारे सोडुन मग जीव तुझ्यातच् गुंतला
झेप किती घेतली, पण विरहच नशीबी आला

जीवन म्हणतेस ज्याला ते स्वप्न माझे आहे
वर्षे लोटली जगासाठी मी आजही तीथेच आहे
कधी मागे वळुन, थोडं चालुन एकदा येणार का?
डोळ्यांत डोळे घालुन एक हाक तरी देणार का?

- For Noorie