If I had a Dream

If I had but just a dream

     then perhaps I'd be an astronaut,

     or a cellist, or a rock.

     I'd sail across the distant seas

     and above me birds would flock.

If I had just a single dream

     I might run my hands o’er fields of wheat,

     or stand out in the rain.

     I’d give myself a pinch or two

     just to see if there was pain.

If I had but just a dream

     I’d slip into myself.

     I’d never cease to close my eyes

     ‘cause there’d only be us two.

     I’d shudder at the thought of morning,

when I won’t remember you.