I'm a Dreamer

I’m a dreamer that’s me

I dream all day long

 

An office kitchen wall stain

I wonder how it got there

Then I dream of the thoughts from Keynes

And how he tried to be so fair

 

I dream of the dolphins and sharks

And of the inequality

There are the dreams from Marx

Justice and equality

 

I look at a pan on the boil

And dream of thermodynamics

Life is on a mortal coil

Dreamt by quantum mechanics

 

I look at our modern buildings

And the heights that they reach

I see the shapes and anglings

Then I dream of those Greeks

 

I think of diseases conquered

And those who succumbed before

I dream of what scientists pondered

And how our lives pass the fourth score

 

And those who travel the seas

Safely and in quick time

What did Bernoulli see

Evolving to the jet turbine

 

I switch on my lights everyday

And make telephone calls

I dream of what Maxwell did say

And the Faraday cage walls

 

There are the revolutionaries

I dream of lives of note

Like Percy Shelley and Mary

And how women got the vote

 

I’m a dreamer

That’s me

I dream all day long

I dream whilst at work

And when I’m long gone.