WISH I COULD DREAM AGAIN

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