In Search Of a Dream

Pencils of light peek

Through the corner of the half-closed door

Making the shadows seek

Some unknown horizon in it

I close my eyes to feel the dark

And look in some hidden nook

A place where a dream may lurk

Away from worldly nightmares

I eye for something I found not

I know not what.

I wanted to say something but could speak not

I feel strangled.

I wanted a certain smell

That my nose picked not.

I wanted in pride to swell

- It did not knock my door.

I could hear not

What my ears tried so much to capture

- The smooth shrill cry of the peacock;

Your voice

So now retreat oh shadows

I want to open the door

To let light rush in droves

And shatter my dream to pieces.