Old Dreams

Old Dreams

In the evening when the moonlight;
Gently falls on land and sea.
Old dreams come like wolves at midnight;
Come to howl and torment me.

Dreams of youth their glory ended;
Fall behind sweet sorrow's vale
Dreams of love by sorrow riven,
Like the desert winds do wail.

Dreams are foolish, so uncertain,
Each of us a price must pay.
For we must rise to meet the morrow,
Rise to face another day.

Still tis hard for oft they linger,
At the edges of the heart.
Dear yet ever so illusive,
They tarry long and don't depart.

Sadness creeps into my chamber,
When I think of long ago.
When hope danced to the mystic music,
No one else but I could know.

Dreams like vapors, quickly rising
Rise like smoke and fade away.
Unachieved and unaccomplished,
At the breaking of the day.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019



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Date: 9/29/2019 4:13:00 AM
I always enjoy reading your work Wanda. You have touched my heart with this one. Excellent. this is a fave for me
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Date: 9/29/2019 2:12:00 PM
Thank you P.S. AWTRY-I appreciate hearing from you. I suppose I often wax a bit melancholy, but then I suppose that is what Poets do. But it always means so much to hear someone enjoys your work. God bless you.
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