''Amazing Are My Dreams''
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Future dreams- I have put on hold because of dreadful fear,
Until now, I am trapped in a cemetery with the dead, weeping;
To myself so often, I say just let it go, let the pain go-follow dreams.
Until now, my yesterdays were more important than tomorrows,
Ravaged has been my short life and my future out of sight;
Ends of journeys usually mean beginnings of others- but I am stuck.
I have had a dark past, full of death and tragedy. And I am unable to let it go.
And what is odd is that my parents were the happiest people, never full of gloom.
Why cannot I be more like them? They were always looking to the future, they had
plans and dreams, and they never dwelled in the past. They could have, but did not.
My Dad used to say that life is like chapters in a book, you finish one, begin another.
I know that it will be impossible to live my dreams until I accept the sad of my past.
Accepting the past will allow me to move into the future. Yesterday is history and
tomorrow is a mystery, as the saying goes. I want to make new memories, happy
ones, but first I must find the happiness that dwells within. And move on because
I have beautiful dreams full of peace and tranquility and awesome new adventures.
I will take the past
lessons and bring them with me-
amazing are my dreams
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Written May 7, 2016
Poetry/Acrostic/Haibun/Senyru/"Amazing Are My Dreams"
Copyright Protected, ID 16- 787-517-0
All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.
Submitted to the contest, First Place Only II
sponsor, Laura Loo (June 18, 2016)
Second Place
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Written for the contest, Future
sponsor, Nayda Ivette Negron
First Place (Judged 5/11/2016)
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Poem of the Day, May 9, 2016
Copyright © Constance La France | Year Posted 2016
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