Salman Rushdie

"A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and to stop it from going to sleep."

Salman Rushdie

PLEASE TELL HIM

PLEASE TELL HIM

Light glids down from the yellowish horizon
Traverses his face.  His eyes now awaken
From a vision which he knows only
Glints as if to say the night was to short
While the dreams are still many.


Hastening  out from his warm, cosy bed
Thinnest needle of clock he wants to outpace
For awaiting is a crowd with similar mundane vows
On the same run and he has to outrace
Them all with his firm, swift steps.


Somebody please tell him before the sun sinks down
It was with himself all the time what he has not yet found
Please tell him they are all fallacies whatever
                                                                he has been preached
Make him realize that it’s only only a sound sleep
At the end of the day what he is going to need.

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