A Single Secret Core. If I Dream Now Poem by umashankar manthravadi

a single secret core. if I dream now
of many possible futures it is
because I cannot clearly see a way

all that falls around us, surrounds us
is their silence. time walks on cobwebbed feet

I cannot tell the world how it had been
imagined, or how it had come to pass
exactly as we had it imagined

but just this: for once in an uncharted life
there was a moment, a fork of futures

where we made a choice. in time of tumult
hold hard to that secret silence. a real
future hides in these multitudes. I am
content that I do not go forth alone

May 20,1995