Joy of the Dawn

Rays tip-toe on my face
Cheating the blinds
Announcing their arrival
Tearing night's dark sheath

Life has begun - they proclaim!
Birds are serenading
Flower buds are bursting
Impregnating air with bliss

So spry; yet so calm
Dew-drops sit still
Yearning to fly unto Heaven
Or frolic with your eyes
Creating colors from white

My hapless soul glances outside
Allured by grass soft and wet
Summoned by fragrances I least understand
Is this a fortuitous accident?
Or a divine stratagem?

Clear skies embrace me
With the warmth of a Mother
And the passion of a Lover
Beauty justifying one's existence
Akin the Child's simple innocence

I try to resist the ephemeral
But isn't it Nature's elixir?
Have I drowned myself
Head over heels
In the Joy of the Dawn?

Dreams

Someone told me to dream
to dream free, big and bold!
then why am I scared?
of the possibilities that behold!

I was there though, happy
Looking ahead at the reverie
Or instead, was it the fancy
laughing back at me?

Thousand dreams there are
Which to choose? Which to destroy?
What if I fail? What if I blunder?
Hundred questions at such I flounder!

Time presses for an answer
Look around me, mine always say
Immersed minds, confident and positive
Swimming towards goals, without any delay

Made that way they are, probably
I hypothesize rather wildly
Cocooned from world I am, may be
Confused and random, thought seems hazy

Do others know what goes inside?
Reflecting the light like the moon
Like the Jester in pain
I laugh and behave more of the same

Hope hasn't deserted me yet
Some rays of glory fall on me
Is it the Dawn? The beginning of a new day?
I don't want to know, ignorant
I try to dream. And ask myself - which is the way?