Dreams

Dreams that we dream
Simple hopes they all seem
Dreams of youth’s innocence
Thoughts only the young can dream

World of peace and games
Bliss and joy like clouds in the sky
Life washed clean by the rains of Spring
Left bare in the sun to dry

Dreams of life without care or need
All those loved would never leave
Dulled by the coming to age unasked
Lost youth leaving one only to grieve

Loves of adolescence, pure and true
Dreams of forever, thoughts never to fail
Open hearts to share all time together
Fresh minds ready for the world unveil

Unblemished souls with dreams to pursue
Taking on challenges to pursue glory
Forging a perfect life in an imagined world
Writing ones own destiny in the long story

Dreams that are assailed by reality
Eaten away in adults sudden trials
The naivety losing to assault of truth
Only to go on as the dream fails

Dreams of adults seem more realistic
Though some may be out of desperation
But one already know the cost to succeed
Requires devotion and desperation

Few chances left to make them come true
As one puts all remaining strength into last dreams
Experience tells what you need to do
To make sure this time nothing fails

But now there are no more dreams
All are used up to the ravages of time
Dreams that were dreamed through life
For some of us dreaming was only a crime.

Dreams

Dreams
Visions of a world that is or could be
Images of a time, a place coveted to see
A glimpse at alternatives, things that not yet are
Paths to happiness or paths that may scar

Dreams
Remembrances of life of the past
Some good, others sad, but all will last
Events that have shaped the mind and soul
Make up ones being and forms the whole

Dreams
Life as it is seen from afar
Sometimes distorted to the bizarre
Perceptions of all that is now
True or false it is part of this life that we plow

Dreams
Bring fantasies into view give them life
A reward for surviving the daily strife
Animation to hopes and pleasures to the eye
A brief reality to those castles in the sky

Dreams
The monstrous portal for all fears
Manifest as demons that the mind sears
Releasing the nightmare from behind the locks
Never meant to escape the hidden mental box

Dreams
Sometimes a foreshadowing of that to come
A sighting of destiny with no path to run from
A fate that is meant for dreamer to pursue
A homing to which there is reward of life’s due

Dreams
They sometimes can come true
But also they may not follow through
And when they fail, and not turn out as they seem
They leave the mind empty, no fantasies left to dream

Dreams
Can be avoided for time, even years
But eventually the sneak in and the mind sears
They can turn joyous like a fairly tale story
Or they might all hope and life destroy

Dreams
In the end one cannot always forestall
Over again they will simply continue to call
Eventually they must all be faced
To be dealt with or continue to be chased.