Poem about 'A Dream: Shaking + Shocking vs Setting Free'
Workshop on The Art of Writing
run by Prof. Jem Poster
Assignment # 2 presented by Albert Hans on 1st August, 2006
Subject-matter/Theme/Topic: A Dream
Infringing
Grabbing
Dispossessing:
Sterilising versus Fertilising
Sweating wet with fright that night,
I see things melting and floating away.
The torrent gets stronger to my dismay,
I am benumbed of what to say.
With flames blazing in on me,
Depriving me of cherished property,
Long-fostered dreams are vanishing away,
So sudden, so swift –
How have I deserved it?
The turmoil, this hurly-burly of flames
Increases with each second.
There is no end to disaster of such degree
Leaving me in utter misery,
At a loss of what to do
Against tiger-fierce brazing flashes of hell
Nourished on panels of hope.
‘Ma maison’, my materialized abode,
Now one shatter of a vision,
Bequeathing me despair and indecision!
Alas – the immense speed
At which those all-devouring monsters
Leap for me as if just to wait and see
What my chances will be.
In vain do my senses throb
Against this unfettered element of fire.
Relief - Release - Rescue
Seem infinitely far away.
Incessant, immeasurably obsessive, obtrusive is my pain
- No way to shake it off -
Until at last
Like a deus ex machina
The divine powers of Heaven set me free,
Putting me back to life – reality.
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Poem about 'A Dream: Shaking + Shocking vs Setting Free'
What was it in this cause-and-effect relationship of life
Which made my sleep a strife,
An endless struggle to survive?
Was it the heat of the night
That bereft me of my senses
Or the oppressive warmth of a single blanket
Which inflicted such torture upon my soul?
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Oh, I see, the alarm clock must have rung at 7 o’clock sharp.
It’s two minutes past. I’ve got to get up fast.