Dream And Reality Poem by M. Asim Nehal

One day my dream set on to meet Reality
The task has been tough since
Neither before nor till now
They both met for anyone in life
And when they did, either of them survived
The night was dark and mysterious
Lovers whispering to the moon
And stars blinking their eyes
Trying to see what is going on
Between the two
The air gently passes through the leaves
That survived the sun's heat
A watchful owl, keeping the vigilant eye
On each passerby
Cicada occasionally jumped from
One branch to another when firefly
Exchanged their mating signals
Frog takes a giant leap with every blow of the wind
All of them saw my dream flying across
Crossing them furiously to meet reality
Dream in its childhood,
started to play with the sands
ripple in the pond, flowing brook
falling water from height and
with the birds it flew from one branch to another
when it reached the adolescence, with little maturity
It stayed in castle serving royals
In high and plush malls, above the crowds
With the aging, it realized that somehow
It drifted far from the reality
And the threshold point of meeting
Is illusory like a mirage in the dessert
Finally the bubbles of dreams reached the point
Where reality was not very far away
And it got merged with it
By the sides of the road where
Rich and poor dwelled together
One in mansion and other on streets
The dreams, woke up early in the morning
To play with the kittens and puppies
To fly with the birds, to run bare feet
On the grass covered with dew drops
Whereas the reality slept on a cushion of laurels
In an air conditioned room nicely covered
By the thick and dark curtains
They often meet on the streets of life
When one receives the love and other give away the charity.