Will You Take Me Along…

 

I heard you the other day

Rode on the waves of an ocean

To fly along the crystal cay

For the touches of the blues

Drawing dreams on the west horizon...

 

I heard you walked miles

Along the salty, sandy shore

To feel the feet, sands and water

Melting in together;

And to quench

The searing soul for a bit more...

 

I heard you, friends, together

Got lost in the trail of old days

To track back your squandered dreams.

You talked a lot and laughed aloud

And smashed the long frozen memories

Back into the flow of your streams...

 

I heard you learned to dream again,

To write lyrics and give life to them.

I heard you learned to paint life

With the color blast of autumn;

You learned to wear off the grays and pains

With the dew of every new dawns...

 

And I want you to take me along,

If you plan another trip to water,

If you ever again tune to the song

Of the foamy waves from the far.

 

I've lived long alone

In a camouflaged seclusion

Amidst crowd;

In the relentless chasing

For a life in a mere illusion.

Now I want to breathe my life.

Will you take me along?

 

For I've never been to beaches,

Never feel the blues in my toes

Nor do I ever dreamify my eyes

With the bliss of a winging albatross...

 

Will you to take me along?

For, I want to dream again

In the streams of the memories;

For, I want to fly again

In the dreamy dunes of Moon;

For, I want to drink the life again

With sweet light drops of the Sun

And the rhyming splashes of the ocean...

© Atique R.