He's lost in peaceful dreams
Where a world full of life beams

A billion years ago
He closed his eyes to know

Of the cosmos He would see
Finite, with no boundary

Where a million worlds reside
In a darkness where they hide

But He can see them all
A ray of light would fall

And show Him the worlds entire
Before His eyes would tire

And wake Him from his reverie
But with a hope for the night every



The Story Behind

This poem is based on the most profound and controversial topic mankind has ever encountered. It is strongly based on the chapter 'On The Edge Of Forever' in a book I truly admire named COSMOS by Carl Sagan.

It has always been a mystery as to where our world leads us too. We know that one day, the sun will die and the existance of life on the earth will be terminated. Every entity of Cosmos has to follow the pattern of cycles consisting of the two fundamental truths: life and death. Every planet, star, galaxy dies at its given time. Then the question arises, as to whether the universe follows the cycle too or is it an exception to this rule? Is our ever expanding universe never going to die? Or will it shrink and turn out to be big black hole?

Scientists believe that the universe emerged from a Big Bang an explosive nuclear reaction that no one can explain. What caused it is a mystery too. Some say God did it? But 'God' itself is a controversial topic. However, this is a topic where science fails to delve any furthur.

That makes us move on to more religious backgrounds. All the religions of the world propagate through their Holy Books that the Universe is a rare exception to the pattern of cycles we all have to go through i.e. it is immortal.

However, only Hinduism begs to differ. It states that Lord Brahma, the Lord of Birth has been sleeping for all these years and his divine dream has been our Cosmos. Our world like many other worlds is just an illusion. The day he wakes up, the Cosmos will end and die and not be an exception to the rule. I know this thought may sound too absurd and surreal to be true. But we have no other choice but to believe it. It gets the closest to the facts that science has put forth. It is said that Lord Brahma is sleeping from the last 8.64 billion years approximately half the time since the Big Bang. The writer Mr. Sagan strongly agrees with the idea of our Cosmos going through an infinite number of deaths and rebirths.

As the legend goes, every time Lord Brahma sleeps, he dreams of the Cosmos and when he wakes up after a long interval of time, the Cosmos dies but however, only to take a rebirth in a reverie that next time Lord Brahma sleeps again. The idea of the whole poem is to illustrate this complex concept. I hope I have been lucid enough with my explanation which will hopefully make the meaning of the last stanza clear now.