Red Door Magazine 23
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POETRY SELECTION:<br />
Fundamental Right to Dream<br />
By Debasish Parashar<br />
Imagine you are a little weird<br />
and you dream of yellow rivers<br />
gathering tea leaves to the tune of ardent Erhu<br />
music<br />
in the heart of a Syrian child<br />
imagine you believe her tears,<br />
flying samurais,<br />
can flood rice fields of gold<br />
transform into maritime Silk-routes<br />
ancient as hope<br />
through Silk-routes of tear you sail on a tiny boat<br />
from Kunming to Mediterranean shores<br />
kissing continents of solitude<br />
will you be wrong ?<br />
no, not at all<br />
because you have a fundamental right to dream<br />
a natural right to dream<br />
Imagine you are listening to a relaxing<br />
composition of Spanish guitars<br />
lying on your bed of windows<br />
lights off and fog outside<br />
you sleep down the slippery melodies of<br />
a candle-lit evening from the 90’s<br />
you feel strongly you could still live that innocence<br />
will you be wrong ?<br />
no, not at all<br />
because you have a fundamental right to dream<br />
an inalienable right to dream<br />
Imagine it’s a stormy night<br />
and you are sailing through the Silk-routes of tear<br />
on your tiny boat<br />
You come across a dream-seller<br />
carrying fallen leaves<br />
you ask for a dream and he offers his palms instead<br />
you hold his hands and cry<br />
will you be wrong ?<br />
no, not at all<br />
because, without sweat and blood and tears<br />
there is no right to dream<br />
as a three-year old<br />
I used to scream seeing butterflies in my dreams<br />
I could not tolerate those intense dreams<br />
I used to wake up in tears, tired and terrified<br />
I have seen dreams growing to words<br />
and butterflies shaped into swords<br />
butterflies with edges of sword can cut you into<br />
doubles<br />
my dreams have been weird<br />
your dream will be different<br />
no matter what<br />
you have a fundamental right to dream<br />
a different dream<br />
an inalienable and a natural right to dream<br />
just like your right to breathe<br />
you have a right to dream.<br />
Debasish Parashar is a Multilingual Poet, Creative Entrepreneur, Singer/Musician<br />
and Lyricist based in New Delhi, India. He is an Assistant Professor of English<br />
literature at the University of Delhi. Parashar is the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of<br />
Advaitam Speaks Literary journal and is associated with the World Poetry Movement.<br />
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