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Every Cloud's a Dream

Ayan Adak




  Every cloud’s a dream

  Ayan Adak

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  Copyright 2014 Ayan Adak

  ISBN: 9781310856532

  Cover design by Ayan Adak

  Contents

  Every cloud’s a dream

  When yesterday keeps calling

  Ode to the blue mountains

  What’s a little hope

  The piper of joy

  Wings of gold

  Give to me a little smile

  Emptiness

  Duality

  Alstonia

  Upon the paths you tread

  Awaiting the nor’wester

  Meet you again on a cloudy day

  Realization

  Rain in the mountains

  On a rainy sunday morn

  Listening to the road

  A child’s dream

  Uncertainty

  Truth

  And yet I silent wait

  Yesterday

  Lights in the shadows

  Conversation with the Almighty

  Street lights

  Lost

  Questions

  An elf, a fairy, a dragon and me

  You might have told me once

  At the end of night

  Every day is an empty page

  The shepherd and the swan

  A teardrop

  Tears

  One day in the times ahead

  Sudden thunder

  When Sam crossed the scarecrow

  Hope

  Lines written on an autumn day

  First rains

  About the writer

  Every cloud’s a dream

  Upon the blue seas of the sky

  Every cloud you see,

  Is a little dream that someone had,

  Just like you and me

  For every time a dreamer brave

  Hopes with little doubt,

  He paints a part in the canvas sky -

  A future in a cloud

  And thus the clouds sail patiently

  Upon their playground vast,

  Waiting silent for their dreams

  To come to life at last

  But not for once should we ever think

  They leave our sides at all,

  Watching every day our faith,

  And how we rise or fall

 

  For people change and grow up fast

  Their hopes, they waver too

  And once they give up, melts away

  Their clouds into the blue

  But there are those with heartfelt tears

  Who in spite of all the pain,

  Carry on for the rainbow joy,

  They hope after the rain

  For them, the sunset sky adorns

  Their clouds in brightest hue,

  Whispering in their golden hearts:

  ‘Tomorrow waits for you’

  _________________

  When yesterday keeps calling

  When yesterday keeps calling,

  More often than we care,

  Perhaps somewhere it’s wedged in grief

  More than it could share;

  And hence the tears from long ago,

  Spill into now, today,

  No matter how far we walk ahead

  We hear those echoes play.

  But the fault, it lies in our feeble hearts

  That can’t accept what’s dead,

  In the wistfulness of happier times,

  We cling to the pains instead.

  How long before immature minds

  Will get the truth to see,

  That yesterday’s like a caged bird,

  It’s time we set it free…

  _________________

  Ode to the blue mountains

  Sing for me to the mountains blue

  That lie yonder in your land,

  Sing for me yet one more song

  To them mountains, old and grand

  For deep within the bushland trails,

  I’ve walked so many a day,

  That in that gaze and in that sun,

  I gave my heart away

  And all the love I ever gave,

  The hills, they gave me more,

  (Hence, so far am I, yet winds bring back

  Memories from that shore)

  And in those falls and trees and skies,

  And all the world I knew,

  I have sung my song of joy and pain

  Therein the days I grew

  And if you ever find that love

  For your mountains far and blue,

  You’ll hear an echo, deep somewhere

  Of someone just like you

  Then sing for me to the mountains blue

  That lie yonder in your land,

  Yes, sing for me yet one more song

  To them mountains, old and grand…

  _________________

  What’s a little hope

  No strength I seek to cross the seas,

  No angel wings to sail the breeze,

  No godly gift for a golden deed,

  A little hope is all I need

  “What’s a little hope?” the night may doubt

  When a drop of tear whispers out,

  To look at stars with bleary eyes

  And know somehow, the sun will rise…

  _________________

  The piper of joy

  In darkness glum, I’d lost my way,

  When a piper met me one fine day,

  And played a song of what a hue -

  That woke me up in life anew!

  I asked enthused, “Teach me the song!”

  When he merrily said and moved along,

  “Keep that smile upon your face -

  You’ll learn it all from your joyous days”

  So, thence I wore that happy smile,

  Through the ups and downs in life for miles,

  How else would I ever get to sing-

  The song that Life alone could bring?

  And often though were cloudy skies

  I had to wear my smiling guise,

  But each day taught me one new note

  To walk on forth and stay afloat

  After months of walking hard and long,

  I felt one day I’d learnt that song,

  But I knew I needed it no more –

  For I had learnt a lot in the days before

  I now could smile through all my pains,

  Which gave me hope to rise again,

  (For thorns will always deck your way –

  But you must move on everyday)

  I thanked the piper ‘gain, in turn

  For all that he had made me learn –

  What of the song? Wont that you ask?

  Well, it had to serve me one more task

  For while I sprinted on my way

  I found a soul in gloom one day,

  And I had to give what came to me

  So I sang again to set him free…

  _________________

  Wings of gold

  Grant me a pair of golden wings

  To help me fly away:

  That in unknown lands where you get lost,

  You find me wait your way

  Grant me a pair of golden wings

  That in this world so wide:

  A single time you think of me

  You’d find me by your side

  And grant me wings of magical hope

&
nbsp; Back in time to sail,

  To help you smile and wipe your tears

  In all the times you failed

  But mortals frail that we all are

  Where do I find such wings?

  To which I hear your mature song

  That the wind from faraway brings:

  ‘What need of wings that never are?

  Let’s love the world as is,

  Let memories be the hope I seek,

  Your smile the source of bliss’

  ‘And every time I fall in doubt,

  Which way in life to choose

  That you’d trust my every move

  Is proof I’ll never lose’

  ‘That you would sail the seven seas

  Every time I cried

  Is strength enough for me to know

  You are always by my side…’

  _________________

  Give to me a little smile

  Give to me a little smile, to chase my clouds away,

  Oh grant me your little smile to ring a sunny day.

  For in that smile, I find your joy, to gently kiss my heart,

  Urging me to look ahead – there’s always another start

  But so far is your wonder smile, wherever would I seek?

  Why are you so far away? Won’t my world turn bleak?

  And then I strangely hear your words, singing soft in glee,

  To close my eyes and look within, to find your smile in me…

  _________________

  Emptiness

  I see resentment in the eyes of the sun,

  And disappointment in the horizon

  The clouds, though late come sullenly

  And simply ask, what have I done?

  The painter me while coming here,

  Had lost his painting brush somewhere,

  And now, under the twilight sky,

  I lose that self without a care

  And someday, not so consciously,

  I’ll be someone not meant to be,

  Like many others who lose their way

  Or pretend that they are carefree

  And even if the Fates someday,

  Drop a canvas-brush upon my way

  I won’t understand the mockery

  Oblivious – I will move away…

  _________________

  Duality

  How sad am I,

  That my garden primroses,

  Have withered and said goodbye,

  How glad my primroses,

  That I sit and mournful sigh…

  _________________

  Alstonia

  These are but flowers no more,

  Upon a dusky autumn glow,

  They are sweet floating memories

  Of time that used to flow

  Clusters of flowers, no more –

  Each bud a yesterday,

  Or another year of deciduous love

  That came and went away

  Ah! This sweet incense of life,

  Why does it pain me so?

  Perhaps, I inhale a different world

  Where no longer can I go

  Dearest blossoms - You bring forth tears

  But please never fail to bloom –

  For the absence of your memories

  Will cry out deeper gloom

  And thus I smile, for in this fall:

  The buds I see above -

  They bring back days that never