When I lived in the beer bottle; all that I could ever
dream of was an ocean of inebriating alcohol; streams
of frothy booze putting me to everlasting sleep,
When I lived in the conventional television; all that
I could ever dream was a myriad of sleazy characters;
uttering a festoon of ostentatious dialogues; trying
their best to trigger the gloomy audience into
hilarious smiles,
When I lived on the pugnacious fire body of the
blazing Sun; all that I could ever dream of was
unprecedented heat; sizzling rays of golden light
stringently entrenching every iota of my skin,
When I lived in the refrigerator; all that I could
ever dream of was frozen crusts of white ice; silver
streams of chilled liquid cascading down painstakingly
over my naked chest,
When I lived in the steep well; all that I could ever
dream of was morbid darkness; the slime coated frog
bouncing euphorically; flooding the solitary ambience
around with its discordant croaks,
When I lived in the birds nest; all that I could ever
dream of was a cocoon of shimmering white eggs; pairs
of innocuous young fledglings squealing ecstatically
in new born life,
When I lived in the ocean; all that I could ever dream
of was gargantuan loads of salt and frothy spray;
scores of delectable fish gliding vivaciously gliding
past my nose; spreading unfathomable waves of fantasy
in my heart,
When I lived in the veins; all that I could ever dream
of was crimson blood; gushing in sheer rhapsody
through the conglomerate of tender bone and dainty
flesh,
When I lived in the country gutter; all that I could
ever dream of was fetid sewage; the horrendously
obnoxious stench of decaying garbage infiltrating
every instant in my nose,
When I lived in the deserts; all that I could ever
dream of was unsurpassable territories of sweltering
hot sands; the belligerent thorns of cactus staring in
animosity at the travelers who traversed by,
When I lived in the handle of the gleaming butcher
knife; all that I could ever dream of was the
merciless assassination of several innocent sheep;
shearing apart their succulent body in order to
appease the demons gluttony,
When I lived in the fields of fathomless cotton; all
that I could ever dream of was immaculate pieces of
silken cloth; an infinite ensemble of gaudy cloth hung
tantalizingly in the showrooms,
When I lived in the voluptuous coagulation of ominous
black clouds; all that I could ever dream of was
tumultuous streaks of thunder lightening; ferocious
droplets of sparkling rain pelting incessantly on the
trajectory of this earth,
When I lived in the pristine oyster; all that I could
ever dream of was the boundless assembly of glowing
pearls; the exorbitant opulence and glamour
encapsulating the neck of every princess,
When I lived in the scalp; all that I could ever dream
of tons of animated hair drifting in the direction of
the breeze; incomprehensible granules of disdainful
dandruff feasting merrily on the skull,
When I lived in raw mud; all that I could ever dream
of was clusters of grass sprouting out in rampant
tandem; the hideous snakes and worms crawling
furtively into their respective burrows at night,
When I lived in the automobile tyre; all that I could
ever dream of was several bellows of freshly trapped
air; electric speeds enveloping me every second as the
car galloped into the jagged necklace of hills,
When I lived in the lap of my mother; all that I could
ever dream of was my nostalgic childhood; the moments
of inexorable mischief that I had executed while
pulling her nose; incorrigibly refraining to study
when she scolded me,
When I lived in the Omnipotent statue of the Almighty
creator; all that I could ever dream of was the entire
Universe; the magnificent beauty that he had evolved
to admire; the astounding prowess that he had endowed
upon every human being to create an entity possessing
his own blood,
And when I lived in the heart of my beloved; all that
I could ever dream was pure love; drowning in the
aisles of her ravishing romance; blending my
impoverished soul in the stream of her passionate
breath to exist blissfully in this life; as well as
many more lives to come…
(c) (r) copyright-2004, by nikhil parekh. all rights reserved.
