dreams...

the evolution of the dreamer

dreams

faint echoes

delivered

to cloudy minds

matured by time

poisoned by reality

censored by gods and dogma

 

dreams

we give to our kids

their bright eyes

reflecting

our old hopes

chase them, darlings,

don’t let them go

run with your eyes closed

 

it would sadden me more

to know

my children never tried

or that i

was the cause

for their dreams

to cease…

Author's Note

i was thinking about what my kids dream about doing when they grow up and then wonder what happened to those dreams we adults had?

Reviews

[Jami Nicole]

"matured by time, poisioned by reality" Great line. I read this and it really got me thinking. Not just about what I dream to be, but just about life in general. Whatever you hoped to accomplish with this poem, well, you accomplished it. This is really good. "Epic" even... God I hate that word.

Love, Jami

[Aven]

there are so many aspects to this... dreams are reflections of limitation... to want is to never have... to chase a dream truly is to run with your eyes closed, for you never know where it might take you, but in the end, it's in our heart that we decide. nobody can take our dreams from us, only we can let go of our heart's desire... and if we do live to see it happen, we might just spend 30 million on our friends go back to preaching! well written!

[David W Moore III]

We kept putting one foot in front of the other, leaving our dreams in the periphery until one day we could no longer see them. The very few, the lucky reach their dreams. I always dreamed of getting a book published, so 1 down, now about that astronaut thing...

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

love the artistic scape to this beautiful heart in the life~

[Wolf]

Very nice write i really enjoyed it and to think that this is what many parents fear for with their children. they are afraid of what their children may see this day and age. let our next generations dreams never cease.

Life happened. Nice job fiddling with the format again.