Yesterday’s was a night of dreams

I said “So long”

I saw three roosters

jumping up high

All blue in color

And I was watching them through the window.

We waited for a train

on a narrow roadside

where that train halts for a minute.

I saw my kids in my old classroom

I was also there in my school uniform.

I picked flowers from the ground

the place was new to me

The house owner, a stranger,

Smiled and said

“You have fruits over there”

I saw passion fruits hanging,

ripe and yellow.

And finally, the train came

Indian flag mounted in the front

Faces of our national leaders-

My heroes from the past

could be seen through each window

I saluted

“Please come back, we need you”.

Now I am awake

I salute everyone

who makes life here possible, pleasant and safe

In their own ways

Farmers and Soldiers in the front

Others follow