I endured a lifetime of aloneness
Before you taught me how to live.
I endured a lifetime of loneliness
Before you taught me how to forgive.
I endured a lifetime of sadness
Until I saw a smile upon your face.
I discovered the ultimate peace and happiness.
I laid with you, in my favorite place.
It was the day we laughed so hard
we made the sunflowers bloom
I was eleven
it was temperate
we were running like ponies
a game of baseball
happiness all balled up in our eyes
shooting out of us in shrieks and bellows
I’m a bird
she declared
and I decided I was too
a free bird
with nothing to do
but chase the wind
they say it whips you in the face
but this isn’t how it works
if you run hard enough
the wind bores right into you
I don’t remember anything else
except the smell of the air
sweet as chocolate
the wind carried the rest away.
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Dreams
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes
I finally found you, my missing puzzle piece. I’m complete.
A Dream Within A Dream
~ Edgar Allan Poe ~
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Dreams are the seedlings of reality. ~ Napoleon Hill
Dreamin’, I must be dreamin’
Or am I really lying here with you?
Baby, you take me in your arms
And though I’m wide awake, I know my dream is comin’ true
And oh I just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
There I go by, just fall in love again and when I do
I can’t help myself, I fall in love with you
Magic, it must be magic
The way I hold you when the night just seems to fly
Easy for you to take me to a star
Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes.
And oh I just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
There I go by, just fall in love again and when I do
I can’t help myself, I fall in love with you
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