Estranged Dreams

We walked in the rain
With sun on our backs - only desolate plain,
Shimmering in bloody sunlight, stretching far beyond.
Once a child of hope; now boys of spirit
Walking into manhood.
No desire, no fear, no pain but only solitude
Seeping like poison - persistent each second
We were walking to destination nowhere
The world - a far away distant memory
Fading each day - growing worse
Once an inseparable companion
Of no hope neither ambition.
Child of yesterday; boys of today
Growing to be a man of nowhere.

We’re fading - fading away
From a world that’s now far far away.
Identity crisis, Flaming desire extinguished
Only dreams- no joy like before
In our own world we live and share death
Each one for oneself but not selfish
We existed - dying each day,
Only soul at night - wanted everywhere.
Human voices, laughter and kisses
Like distant wails, still ringing far away
We’re on our way, where at eternity next day
After being tortured in this hellish world
We have nothing to live for, save death.
No option, no passion, no crossroad highway
Only a narrow path leading away,
Away to the jaws of death shall we finally decay.

September 1997

(Written for drug awareness campaign at Scholars Home, Dehra Dun)