Journeys and Reflections from a Life Well-Lived

Monday, August 18, 2025

I am just a Dreamer

 



I’m just a dreamer!

I wish I could take off and fly,

Up like an eagle, in the blue sky.

Climb high mountains without any fear.

Sprint on land, just like a deer.

Looks like a model, I’d really like.

Sing for a party, in the mike.

Eat paneer or halwa and gain no fat

Own five mansions and not just a flat. 

I’m just a dreamer!



Of energy like lightning, could I possess.

Have truckloads of money, with no tax assess.

Do what I want, what I think is right.

With no dumb bosses, to turn around and fight.

Drive each day in a Mercedes Benz.

Go to Five Star hotels, at my father in laws expense.

Eats lots of Ice Creams and Pizzas too.

Falling ill thereafter, I never do.


Oh! I’m just a dreamer!


Drive a racing car or fly a Jumbo jet.

Marksman like me you’ve never met.

Do bungy jumping or ride a submarine.

No actor like me on the silver screen

A hundred sons and daughters, not so few.

All women around me, less than twenty-two.

A thousand lengths a day, in my swimming pool.

    Dressed up in diamonds and look real cool.


I’m actually a dreamer!


Two lovely children and a wonderful wife.

For me they are, ultimate in life.

We really like ice creams but fall sick too.

        I run few metres and then I go – ‘Phew.’

In my old Fiat, as we drive along,

I always hum a tuneless song.

        I’m a smart old man of thirty-six.

         My falling hair now does need a fix.


I’m still a dreamer!


With a small little paunch over my belt

Proud like a king, is what I’ve felt.

One small flat and money in the bank

I’m very happy, of that I’m frank.

I do what I want, with my mind at peace.

Enjoy myself and do what I please.

        The grace of God are my life’s winnings.

        To see me through in my life’s innings.


      But I will still be a dreamer!!!

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Sitting as a Road Opening Party (ROP) Commander in More Camp north of Udhampur on 12th August 1998, these verses just started flowing like mountain stream. I had set up my post in the Border Roads barracks which overlooked the mountains, and I could hear the murmuring of the Tawi river just across the road. It was a day with a crystal blue sky overhead and a lonely eagle was lazily gliding around. I had completed my inspection rounds and just finished my lunch… I was day-dreaming!!!

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