The Dreamer..

The Dreamer……

With the dark blanket

Of the starless night.

Amidst the howling loneliness he rides

The shining armored knight.

Without the calming moonlight

Filling the echoing woods; not alone

He moves on the ways wrong or right

Wherever he goes at least they are his own.

As he gallops on his black beauty

Hope still flowing silver in his veins.

The phoenix races with the darkness fretting

With his fiery appendages leaving no dark stains.

There comes a heavenly bellow-

Moon dust in your lungs

Stars in your eyes

You are the child of the cosmos

The ruler of the skies…

Since most of my friends to whom I read this poem didn’t understand it after I read it to them😭 (with a dramatic sigh) I am also writing an explanation to this poem.

Para 1:

The dark and starless night symbolizes hopelessness. ‘Howling loneliness’ here says that solitude isn’t completely enjoyed by the knight but still he is comfortable with it. The knight is armored means that he has not only protected himself from others feelings and worldly desires, it also means that he kept his feelings to himself not opening up to others avoiding vulnerability.   

Para 2:

There are these echoing woods (forest) which here represent danger and unfamiliarity of the path with no factor or reason to calm(moonlight usually calms people). The knight who is not alone, moves toward his goal along his own track and not on someone’s used way, a track unexplored.

Para 3:

As the knight moves on his black and vigilant horse who is his sole companion, rays of good time and success follow his traces in a form of the phoenix, a bird that rises from the ashes to burn graciously filling the air with light, hope, killing the darkness of hopelessness and gloom.

Para 4:

Bellow means a loud sound or instruction.

Moon dust in your lungs           : you are calmed and composed.

Stars in your eyes                      : you have aims and ambitions and the hope to achieve them.

You are the child of the cosmos: you have the power to control the universe in your veins since your birth.

The ruler of the skies…             : you are the ruler of your own faith, the one to make yourself strong and unstoppable, the invincible…