What do you see when you dream?
A beautiful house, or a horrific scream?
A heavenly reward, or the past which you deem?
What do you see when you fall asleep?
A garden of roses, or a burning keep?
A demanded position, or an unfaithful reap?
What do you see when you close your eyes?
A sequence of love, or a beloved dies?
A won debate, or your society's lies?
What do you see when you lose your senses?
A message deciphered, or poisoned fences?
A gourmet meal, or God's gift from the Devil's lenses?
What do you see, a good dream or a nightmare?
A glimpse of destiny, or a haunting trauma's stare?
A utopian future, or justices equated unfair?
A resolution fulfilled, or a hungry beast's lair?
The question is, do you dream or not?
Or do you forget sleep, lost in a deep thought?
Or do you sleep in a trance dreamless,
A kind of state where consciousness is meaningless?
~Abhik Dutta
