The Dream

(This is a poem retelling a dream which I had someday back.) 

I walk in a train,

Running across a stream,

I look down and find no tracks

Shit!! I am again in a dream.

It cuts a corner

And stops near a mosque.

A priest comes out with a smug face

I wonder if that is a face or a mask.

I wanted to rip off his face

And solve the mystery.

He was annoying me, so like a true Delhite,

Verbally wanted to remind of his ancestory.

The priest came close

And ripped off his face to reveal a skull inside.

No blood came out

The face was the mask and the mask was the face,

If not for horror, it was modern world’s guide.

I jump back into the train

To flee away from the skull.

And I realized that my dreams are awesome,

While my waking life is mostly dull.

I made a mental note to sleep more often ,

Trying to save my life from skullface while on run.

Thinking that if I had such dreams in college,

I wouldn’t have missed out on such fun.

Then I tried to hide in a toilet,

Again the skull was the shape of commode.

It had tentacles sprouting of it,

Beckoning and warning at the same time, in the same mode.

The train then stopped near a village,

A village I lived in when I was a kid.

Those by-lanes  I could never remember while awake,

In the  dreams, they all came back. They did.

There bandits were running amok,

I had heard bandit stories while I was a child.

While awake they are clouded by reality,

In the peace of sleep they came back from the wild.

Out of the blue, I heard a screech,

Of the unmistakable arrival of the train.

I could have been a jeep , but I prefer to recall it as train

For I would never want those bandits to hound my life again.

I hopped on it,

Preferring the skull to the flying bullet.

Skull was frightening for sure,

But wanted to get as far from death as I could get.

But the skulls were not there,

It became dark and the train shuddered.

I looked and it was falling through a drain

A chill passed through me as I realized,

GOD!! I AM THE TRAIN.

 And after that I obviously woke up as you can never die in your dreams.