Dreams

by barnswallow - Capricorn

Dreams
forgotten 
Dreams 
the fragile threads
broken
like hearts.

We cry tears of regret
for the dream of what
never was. Except in dreams.
Silly, isn't it? as we consider 
the dream is the one thing
they can never take away.

Dream
the one thing
in our desperate search for ourselves
we find
and then forget.

Is there truth in Dreams?
of Life? of Death?
Whose fault then, the lost Dream?
A Dream of perfect Joy!
Is it Life or Death that shatters it?
Or is some natural mechanism at work
that enables us to live and love
in the real world...
The Dream a keel sunk deep into pools 
of consciousness...
that steadies us
allows upright passage in unsettled seas.
If we sail... fly a painless journey of adventure
and awake to merciless agonies of the soul
who would fault our forgetfulness?

Dream and forget
But Dream 
and soar as sleep opens another door
a gentle lifting of the wing's gift singing
being not what never was, but always does
the good we might not know.

Reason for writing:

    just dreams    

Birth sign: Capricorn
Date created: 2000-05-16 22:44:38
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:42:14
Poem ID: 56086

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