The Best of dreams to Dream

Sa'al asked Ilm 

What is the best of dreams to dream

To live a vagabond or die young

Unchaste or pure like an unborn 

To aim, and aim for glorious heights 

In pursuit of a world made Elixer of life

Nay, replied Sa'al, this is too individualistic

selfish and void

Again asked was Ilm

What is the best of dreams to dream 

To desire for a life of relentless pursuits

Of fame, glory and recognition

Of wealth, health and wisdom

To seek for enlightenment and climb

the distance where no one is present

Nay, Sa'al said, this is too self serving

claims no lust of aspiration

Ilm retried to answer

What is the best of dreams to dream

To love someone till the heaven shine

To dissolve like the fire of hell 

To burn and don't give way to burning 

And survive the long harrowing of separation

Nay, this is too damp, redundant and fragile

Sa'al opened up now,

for Ilm was shut out of answers

What is the best of dreams to dream 

the Earth spoke to me, said he

To dream of life as a vagabond and to die young

To dream of unchastity and find way 

in the pursuit of glory and wisdom

To dream of fall and rise in the whirlwind of Love

To stand against the line 

and embrace the singularity

To dream the best of dreams is to dream of oneself

taking shape in the multitude 

of haphazard existence

~Nafis Haider