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'Rym-Hsak'- A Vivid Dream (Feb 2017)

 

The messengers came from the back

Veiled cavemen,

With a message so piercing,

Puncturing, so explosive…

Turning green into flames orange,

The fields of saffron into an inferno

 

Burning and burning, until saffron became charred green,

The hue of nature, the symbol of fertility, the shade of lust

Veiled behind an unfathomable desire

To fill the palette green

 

A scroll made from the leaf,

Held in hands of the messenger,

Tasked with a divine urge

From the north,

 

Blistering her beauty to,

Infernal complexions,

Her new makeup, persona

Veiled in green

A symbol of lust

 

Her cornea radiating like the sun,

Her sclera like White Mountains,

White like the moon,

Her desires unheard of

Still exploding, unable to speak

 

Begging her monarch to bond with the

Iron hand, so as to become invincible

Like the pillar

His lust for power as invincible as the iron pillar

The stroke of his decision…

 

Now she oxidizes corroding green

All apples turning bad

Rice becoming dry

Saffron losing its hue

 

No more the story of paradise but a long…

Prolonged…

Episode of dystopic submission

 

One day they will come

With a palette of orange

To brush up her beauty, her being

Paradise, regaining what was lost,

To eradicate the caves

To make them leave their colony like ants

To unveil the messenger

 

The message of the unseen

Drowned in mule and back

To the subconscious, into unseen

Land of dreams and imagination

 

They came dressed in natural green

With the orange idea

Flaring their caves

Making them run like rats up the mountains

Up north, out of town

Unveiling their green messenger

With the copper stab, now strewn out of thoughts

 

An idea eliminated

Beauty restored

 

A re-union with her children

The land of orange

Remained, with fields of saffron, the red of apples,

The white of rice and the transcendent beauty of nature’s green

Note: This was by far one of the most apocalyptically hopeful dreams I had. It was during the time I was undergoing a lot of stress. I was in a lot of stress with a 120% course load since in second year I had dropped a course, "Environmental Hazards" it was one of those 7-10 PM courses at UTSC on a Tuesday. We learned a lot about volcanoes.  I practically was making up for that dropped course in my final year to complete my credits and graduate. The course I had chosen to balance the act was a huge gamble and I did not know if it would remain in my favour. The constant worry of not doing well and taking a hit on my GPA by poor grades who are like messengers of bad news. I was also looking at the positives which is, if I do well then the reward would also be great. I like spices and nature hence, green and saffron. The colour of orange represents the sun which is 'life-giving', I mean photosynthesis.

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