POESY: IF DREAM BE DONE

IF DREAM BE DONE

If dreams are over

And the body is fresh,

Wake up to 

The light of life,

Wake up to 

Love and learn.

If work be singeing

And the heart doth burn,

Do thy duty 

To merit earn

And spread the love 

And light around

To course of life 

Reverse turn.

If life be long, 

A hollow urn,

Fill the gap 

With loving churn

And read deep 

Through the night-time veil

To see the sun 

In illumined burn.

So waltz through life

And death beyond,

With work that frees

And never binds

Makes you see

And never blinds

To the constancy

Amidst life's myriad turns.

Be blessed thus

And not as now,

For the route is wrong

You know not how,

Nor care to know 

In the dark of joy

When life itself 

Has turned to toy,

To spend but moments

In the deep divine

While whiling hours

In wealth and wine.

A shift in stance

To dive and dance,

Not earthly prance

But blissful trance,

To that end dear,

I steer you clear 

While kinsmen cheer

Some jeer, some leer,

Some frighten, some fear

But all far and near

Have missed the mark

And in madness spark

The sensuous joy

Death's envoy.

Here flows the stream

Beyond the dream

To join the river

That in ripples shiver 

In the thought that it'll be

Soon one with the sea,

Never ever to sunder

And in bondage go under,

Losing freedom, bliss

For eternity.

Composed by Sugata Bose