WISH I COULD DREAM
AGAIN
I took a trip down the memory lane of my life
And I realized how largely I have disappointed my
being
I promised my childhood
That when I become a man
I will be a
responsible man
I promised my childhood
That I will get a great well-paying white-collar job
Get married at the age of twenty-four
Settle down with my family and live happily ever after
It was such a wonderful fairytale of a dream
I have clocked forty years on this earth now
And all I can boast of is the life that I live
And the flesh that covers my bones
They say life begins at forty
But at forty years, mine has gone AWOL
I think I have woken from my slumber now
Reality now bares its ugly teeth at me
Thirty years after my dream of a heavenly future
And it still appears I am in bed
A lot of water has passed under the bridge over the
years
Loads of seeds have metamorphosed into plants
And even withered away
Days have matured into weeks
Weeks have graduated into months
Months have post graduated into years
Years have upgraded into decades
But my life is still marking time
I wish I could rewrite the script of my life
I wish the stage will be set for me again
I wish I could reenact the story of my life from the
scratch
But from the little tutorials that life has granted me
If you want to cast your die more than once
You first have to play ‘six’ on your first attempt
I wish I could be that innocent dreaming child once
again
I wish I could dream again
