Before the Dawn
I was bathed with hazel-hued sunset flavours,
The one that fall brings to mind.
I never knew “dreams” as deeply carved as a two decade-old scar
Could subside with the hollowness of my vessel
Not knowing “real”, not knowing “free”.
Engulfed by the circling gears, the ways the world knows
Routines, conventions, aesthetics: I’ve deemed them all defective
Hopping on my high horse, in a stance like Marco Polo’s
On I went to a chase of rectifying these established laws
The inception of dreams transcending dream itself
Beckoned me to a war of self-hate and self-love
“Does dreaming mean being selfish?”
I mumbled upon the first step to the unknown;
The first step I knew was my own
“A pitfall”, my mind rendered, as a flash took me from chase to fall
A dawn that sets the sun has left me gasping not to lose it all
But the ray that brings most light sometimes blinds
And so a soul has fallen to slumber; dreams and faith alike
Dream’s line always lie tangent to defiance’s
And when ducks swim against tides, to even the odds
Would their wings make them glide against polar-molecule bonds?
And when dogs’ tails wag against the day’s deluge
Would their pants and barks sway the storm away?
But this, I ought to tell you:
The lungs breathing in new air would have hardships as company
The feet running thousands of miles would take bruises as comrade
A little bloodshed remains incessant on any battlefield
As it means you’ve fought, means you’ve braved
Not merely breathing out aged life
And when the jets spell “Give up” at the night sky
And this wilderness seems set on a perpetual ebon midnight
Tell the chains they can suck your blood dry
But you’re set on all your map’s “X” marks
To an indomitable reconstructed paradise
Amidst the roars of enraging chaos
Is the birth of peace
Amidst the whispers of complacence
Is the birth anew of dreams
Direness quenches the soul, that which forged all swords
The focal point of a journey is where darkness intertwines
As the night would be darkest
Just before the dawn
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