A DREAM- AN EYE OPENER!

One morning I opened my eyes,
I found myself in a topsy turvy condition.
My bed was floating.
I looked down only to shriek in horror!!

Trying to reason out the mayhem around me,
I got down from my bed.
My feet got soaked in blood-
It was cold, ice cold…

As I waded through the pool,
I came across a head,
It was a head without a body.
It was a girl’s,
Somebody with whom I could remotely connect to.

It began speaking to me.
It took me to meet many such bodiless heads.
Each one had certain emotions strewn across their faces.

Some were crying, some stoned to silence.
Some were disturbed, some totally at peace.
I halted at each step.

The ones who were crying, I asked them “Why ?”
They replied –
“We fell prey to the mindless actions of men,
In their efforts to achieve their dreams,
They experimented with our lives .”
They had died of faulty medicines and polluted goods.

The silenced ones, didn’t break theirs.
The head that was accompanying me , said
“they died of bombings”.
I then figured out their silence,
They had met with death, when they had least expected it.

I turned my gaze to the ones who seemed disturbed.
Even before I could ask, they said –
“Corruption like a canker has eaten into our lives.
The bigger powers crushed our existence.”
They were butchered.

The last few I saw, were still serene.
Confused, I asked their reason of peace,
In the time of this malady.
They said, “we are happy that we no longer have to tread in this world,
We killed ourselves.”
Mercy killing, I thought wasn’t over.
They killed themselves not being able to tolerate the distress any longer.

Perturbed, I asked that first head,
“Why do you show me these?”
It turned my attention to a nearby mirror.
I stared down hard at it.

Shocked I found out that the head was my face off!!
Realization dawned on me,
I am the future, so I have to work in the present,
So that the past isn’t repeated again.

The head spoke one last time.
“Wake up before its too late”.

The next thing I knew was,
I was sitting on my bed, panting.
It was only a dream.
It wasn’t that late afterall.