Dreams
DREAMS
A re-occurring dream I have with such
A vivid set of sight and sound and touch
That in that other world the question’s posed
Is this only a dream soon to be closed?
The answer oft as not is: No! It’s real
What else could give such graphic sense and feel
Yet in brief course of time we soon return
To life that’s more than such a brief sojourn
Enjoined to judge this as the world that’s real
To which we must revert, the dream repeal
And so we choose to denigrate our vision
As unreality that must be to be shriven
But what, when young, we see as life unending
A climb to peak so distant we’re ascending
As years go by, perceived as finite stake
A dream perhaps from which we may awake
A difference? Brief or long the candle burn
Each IS experience for which we yearn
Therefore we may reject as test: duration
Since time itself is subject to mutation
‘Real world’, if we must judge and make decree.
Is that which we concur, we sense and see.
I’ll share with you and you - life long deems
But choose to also live in my own dreams
Copyright © Geoffrey Brewer | Year Posted 2021
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