Raagaas of Revolution

Put my soul to bed

           Lulled by soothing Nilambari

           In a dream Jim Morrison opened his doors of perception

           Got up sleepwalking on a tenous line
    
             Drawn between the harmony of a thousand violins

             And the disturbing noise of broken guitars
            
             Tried wiping out the line I stood on
     
             A tenous line drawn by who; can't say
          
              Floyd began after Mozart stopped.

             In Marley's voice, I heard the aalaap of a half- caste.

              Some notes divorced the sturms of John Denvor and wandered with the baul's ektara
             
              Some notes kissed  the ABBA goodbye

               And slept peacefully on the strings of the Tambura   
              
               I saw the tenous line fading slowly

                And the high base shehnai embraced the trumpet.

                And the beats of Rasputin rhymed a carnatic percussion solo.

                Woke up once the line was totally wiped out.

                Can this happen only in dreams?