Does he stoop since birth?
Or is he burdened,
By a hundred failures?
Some his own
Some of his forefathers.
The inheirtance of dreams?
An attempt to capture the essence of my thoughts and put them in bearable prose, or worse (as the unimaginative pun indicates). Not too different from my scribbles on paper, only a lot more legible.
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dreams cant always burden :)
@Shreemoyee: Agreed. I had a very abstract thought in my mind when I wrote this. The failures of a generation sometimes get handed down as dreams to the following one.
Inheritance of the society, I'd say.
@Vi: True
Why dreams become a burden is something I have long thought about. I think it’s got something to do with stopping to "enjoying it" and thinking of it as something "thrust upon us" (either by ourselves or by others).
However without dreams we would be just walking, talking robots. Wouldn’t we?
@SD: Agreed. I might not be getting my point across. Perhaps dreams is a misleading word. A common man's life is set to the tone of expectations that a generation before him has set, and he seems to always work under the pressure of meeting them.
Nice...sometimes broken dreams and unfulfilled aspirations of the past (forefathers) takes a man to the other extreme - where he is working so hard to not see his/their dreams/aspirations fail, that that in itself becomes a burden...
or the inheritance of hope?
a tad too cynical? :)
@RS: True. I wonder if Rohan Gavaskar suffers from that :-)
@Shreya: Cynical indeed. Just capturing a different emotion. Others made this discussion complete by their hopeful suggestions :-)
No, I think I got your point. I was digressing into my thoughts on "dreams and burdens":)
Wow, you are good! There's a verse in the Bible that says the sins of the father are the sins of the son, your poem reminded me of how that could be true.
@Lotus Reads: Thanks :-) I wouldn't have thought of the Bible connection. It definitely is on those lines.
or the inheritance of loss...whatever that is, Present sure looks heavy!
@Sparsh: It does, and perhaps the slightly weighty tone of the poem makes it sound even more heavier.
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