Once I had a dream that I was a bird
May 24, 2009 § 21 Comments
From new camera1 |
Once I had a dream that I was a bird .
The world was below me and the world watched me . I was a crow , who flew over the high horizon of the city . Many saw me as a scavenger but within they all longed for what I could do , roam the skies . Yet there is this urge within which I want to fulfill , which humans have already part done – fly beyond this rushing ether. As I see the moon rise ,even as the sun goes down ( to visit my cousins across the enigmatic sky ) my heart beats with pangs of pain , the suffering caused by the urge , the need to touch the impalpable( that moon and those distant stars) , if only to know that the world is tangible.
From new camera1 |
I see across the terraces , many with their aims set , they bicker with the certainity of security . And yet as time wans and nothing but the pale moon night throws shadows about , people become afraid and train their senses to the bright lights of their race’s creation . They never seem to think about the man who thought of those lights . The light shines the brightest , but the light is the substance , the sign but not the source itself . Even as it represents the origin , it is nothing but an extension. Maybe to us crows and birds the light is a sign of a reflex glory , felt every time it strikes our senses . It shows that one day the divinity within will purge us and start the movement towards the unseen worlds .
Maybe it already has in me . Never have we seen anything but the dawn , followed by the day , succeeded by a dusk and left incomplete by a pensive night , peaceful with a joyous melancholy . Maybe there is something greater in the universe , where in the trinities of belonging, i.e. instinct , person and thought are the mere stepping stones to enter into the castes in the skies . Or maybe there is nothing , but I need to see to believe . And sight can be the most prejudiced of all senses , yet at least it garuntees that there is something .
If only we can see beyond the zenith , if only our existence was enriched by thoughts beyond the stars which invite and inspire and reinvent the sense of belonging .
The sound of life woke me . Yet the world spoke to me . The vibrations of my thoughts left me to feel that I was in level with the stars and that which is not truly palpable is the one which is beyond. There is something beyond everything . The truth is the means to an end – yet what is the truth?
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ohoooo so certain pics of urs..standing like a bird ready to fly….
now i know wer they come from 😛
was kiddin…
well there is surely something beyond everything…
we juss go on and on….
so it actually can be never the last attempt…
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ya well it is infinity 🙂
why the crow??? why not the eagle?
hmm….because I have been observing the crows around and not the eagles
everybody wishes to be a bird.. else atleast want to fly 🙂
nicely written Vishesh 🙂
ya 🙂
Well written.
thanks 🙂
hey those are nice pictures! I have been trying to take pics of birds but haven’t gotr any decent ones! I guess my camera isn’t good enough! Nicely written!
which camera do you have?
Poetic prose, wonderful. Loved reading it
😀 thanks 🙂
A very profound piece. I have yet to fully grasp it.
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Now that is profound.
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Spiritual. How can sight be most prejudiced of all senses and yet guarantee that there is something? Maybe we have been given the sense of sight to divert us from the truth. But you add another interesting point about this too: Truth is the means to end, yet what is truth? That is the question that all the sages have been trying to find out. So, I wish you all the best in your endeavours.
Destination Infinity
simple you cannot be prejudiced about something that doesn’t exist or that you can’t judge when there is nothing and we always see something , that is even darkness is something we see…and no I think the senses are to interact with the world understand it and the world and the truth 🙂
And as for what is truth , i will let you know 🙂
Even I wanted to ask the same thing as Reema.
You saw fly high across the horizon and apparently, you’re a scavenger. A crow is no scavenger! An eagle or a vulture is!
Btw, this post is something that should be recorded in a tape and played on a recorder in one of those “art of living” classes.
Amen!
lol art of living it seems 🙂
crow ??? :O well, they are great creatures too and being scavengers of the society and all, i agree, but seriously, crow :O :O