A Journey !

A man
as young as time itself
with a spirit
possessed by childhood
in the prime of his life
with a rucksack of thoughts
starts up his journey, and
carries within
a bundle of dreams.

He walks along the street of hope
forgetting his fear until he reaches
his ancestral graveyard.
In a moment
a dead body calls his name from the bottom
of a grave
and gets in the way, of
his dreamy path.
“ O’ my friend why are you so happy?”
"Did the war end on your land
and peace blossomed
like the flower
of a desert?"
"Or do they still happily dance
on dead bodies to throw up their sickness
and glorify
their existence?"
Young man smiles, and continues
his dreamy journey towards
an unknown
on the street of hope
with a utopia of a free land
and a heart
possessed by love..

Farid Gul, London, 19th February 2010