I’ll hang a dream catcher to catch my dreams
Won’t let them fly away to another world unseen
Should tethered them firmly inside my head
To keep them for years for eternity ahead
Won’t ever let my dreams to fade, and go away
To empty air, and dust untread
Bright, and glimmering giving rays full of hope
That maybe some day they will come true instead
(Sheen, Aug 2021)
Dreams I had dreamt
They disappeared
Leaving no trace behind
They were just thoughts
Figments of imagination
Hopes to which I aspired
No longer attainable
And I have stopped
Thinking of them
Letting them float away
Out of my reach
Out of my life
(Sheen-May2018)
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Disappear
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When under stress
The fear of the unknown
Claws into my heart
I immerse myself in dreams
To will the terror away
And try to find calm instead
(Sheen-March2017)
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DAILY PROMPT
Immerse
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While in Peshawar, I kept seeing my late husband in vivid dreams. After months of absences, suddenly he kept appearing almost every night. In the beginning I would forget the dreams once I woke up, but there was a strange sequence to them.
In all of them he looked annoyed. Previously in my few dreams (since he died), I always saw him smiling, talking in the background to other people. He never spoke to me directly except for one time. (I wrote about it in the beginning of my blogs).
Coming back to the recurring dreams he stopped facing me. He stood with his back towards me, all the time radiating his annoyance. I couldn’t fathom the cause. I had paid a visit to his grave after reaching Peshawar along with my daughter. Had given alms in his name. Held Quran Khawani for him, and distributed food in his name. I couldn’t find any wrong.
And then it dawned on me. Due to shortage of time in the morning, I had stopped saying my duas for him after my Fajr prayers.
Oops!
May God Bless him. Ameen.
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DAILY PROMPT
Vivid
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As an astronaut I would have roamed through space
As a doctor I would have looked after the human race
My lofty dreams never materialized
I became a homemaker by God’s Grace
(Sheen-November 2016)
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DAILY PROMPT
Lofty
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Bludgeoned my dreams
Left them on the ground
To be buried there in
Myself turned around
Choked back my tears
Inside my heart wails resound
(Sheen-November 2016)
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DAILY PROMPT
Bludgeon
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Dreams and goals are things of the past
I am way past having aims
Nothing is of interest to me now
(Sheen-June2016)
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DAILY PROMPT
Aimless
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My husband will never return
Cause he has gone to a land faraway
Can he ever get back to me
I don’t think he has any say
I can’t reach him however I try
My dreams can’t make him stay
Does he ever remember- the children and I
Or his memories have gone away
Even if he wills, and would like to be back
None have come back from the land of the dead anyway
He was a part of my life which is over
Only his memories are going to stay
(Sheen-April2016)
DAILY PROMPT
Faraway
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Sunrise at Charlottesville (March 2016)
A legacy!
Dreams — unfinished
Hurt — at the world I lived
DAILY PROMPT
Legacy
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At the stroke of midnight
Where else I could have been
Lay dreaming in my bed
Peaceful and serene
I realized on the first of new year
Gone was the last day of the year
True appreciation comes
When you leave for far off lands
I am glad to be home — I love it here
(Sheen)
Jan 1, 2016
DAILY PROMPT
Stroke of Midnight
Where were you last night at midnight? Would you have wanted to be somewhere else?
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