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When Nightmares are Kinder than dreams
By Vidya Hariharan
Embryonic failures,
Passion crisis,
Looking upwards
At role models
Falling flat, stumbling
Is fine, as long as you
Shake it like a dog
Pestered by fleas
Of ambition,
Causing fitful slumber
Pills beyond number
Somnolence, a rest
Look- alike, never
the real thing.
Monsters under the bed
Are most welcome,
As long as
They cause
Ordinary nightmares,
And drive away
importunate dreams
Vidya Hariharan lives and works as a lecturer in a suburban college in Mumbai, India. Vidya's poems, haiku, haibun, senryu and prose narratives can be found in Setu, Contemporary Haibun Online, Pan Haiku Review, Under the Basho, Borderless, Poems India, Glomag, among others.
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