ON THE LOOKOUT FOR DREAMERS
No rain has touched these wastelands.
The earth lies stony, locked in stillness.
Dreams struggle here to take root,
And those that do soon wilt away.
Parched are the lanes of this hamlet,
Inhabited only by daydreamers
Who dream of running water
To raise rich harvests of living dreams.
Dreamers gather where the road begins.
Each chooses a direction of their own.
Wherever they wander, passion walks beside them,
Its fierce intensity breaking open obstacles.
Life is a station restless with departures.
Harvest is nearing; soon dreams will be
Separated carefully from the chaff,
Gathered at last into waiting heaps.
And then these dreams, still breathing softly,
Will go searching for new dreamers.
Pramod Rastogi is an Emeritus Professor at the EPFL, Switzerland. He is a poet, academician, researcher, author of nine scientific books, and a former Editor-in-chief (1999-2019) of the international scientific journal, Optics and Lasers in Engineering. He was an honorary Professor at the IIT Delhi between 2000 and 2004. He was a guest Professor at the IIT Gandhinagar between 2019 and 2023. He is presently an honorary adjunct Professor at the IIT Jammu.
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