Guided by Dreams
Guided by Dreams …
We are all guided by dreams…Visions in the night…
Quiet thoughts that beg us to action…until the morning light.
Then, we find ourselves there with the covers over our head…
Knowing…all too quickly…that the dream we just had…is dead.
A dream is much like the state of things…
Joy is fleeting…Goals are washed away…by what Reality brings.
My heart is tired of copy and pasting the dream into my thoughts of an awakened world that I am present in…
My thoughts are jammed with images that aren’t real…Filled with scattered unrealized things that should’ve been.
Are we guided by our dreams…our abstract thoughts…our burning needs…our ultimate wishes…
Are we haunted by Love’s lost embrace…last words spoken…People no longer here…innocent kisses?
Truly…I thought I saw you today…but you were…Oh, so far away…
I know I felt your smile…Your presence was so real…standing there in the light of day…
And yet…you were never there…how did you become so real…I don’t think I can say…
All that I know is the dream I had of you became so completely real…before it went away,
(Ahhh…but who’s to say…?)
When I saw you last…you were a picture of permanence…rooted into the fiber of my being…
Years have gone by…Time has changed…We have moved on so much…from all that I’m seeing.
Not even a casual moment spent near you…
Or even a thought of the memory of us two.
Yet…in my dream…I was back there…
And nothing was different…from what I was aware.
Guided in a dream…Somehow…coming back to you…
Guided by an unexplained hope…by what a dream can do…
Living is what we both had to do…and we’re not through…
Finding a new Tomorrow…is not easy…if it’s not in you.
But Yesterday had no Tomorrow…so I dream in reverse of current reality…
And question my dream’s true intent…Not finding a precise commonality.
Certainly…I am in a dream while I dream…of a dream that is gone…
Trying to retrace the segment of my dream…Trying to make it last long.
Stuck upon this mattress…My eyes can see again…But I can’t see you…I can’t!
Hard pressed thoughts drift while I search the ceiling above…My body lies here…buo-yant’,
(But find you…I just can’t.)
Yet in the distance…my mind sees so clearly…You are there…looking back at me…
And I say all the things…that Time stole away…and prescribe words that were meant to be…
But that doesn’t change this reali-ty…
For it is written: “What will be…Will Be!”
Everything will find a course that is guided in a dream…
A Dream hides its secret intent…or so it would seem.
I live my life now…awakened by a dream…that may never happen.
My Dream…puts me on Center Stage…with a few in the Audience…clapping.
Yet leaves things unmaterialized…in the current scheme of things…
Finding me…Searching…looking for things…that this dream brings.
Waiting for an “inkling of hope” that this dream may have some truth…in the final outcome….
Knowing that if it goes like dreams before…the part of the dream that’s real…is the part that’s done.
I saw you…as if guided in a dream…and for a few moments…everything was real…
I reach back for that dream…I want to catch it and hold it…and feel like it made me feel.
Oh…I was so caught up in the moment…that maybe what I saw…was very real and very true.
But then it was only a dream…guided by the Heavens…my imagination…or perhaps…by you,
(Now I will try to forget it…but that will be hard…to do!)
The End.
Thank you for reading this one! Time and Inspiration are lining-up with a Geen Light for me…lately. So, I have published a few more Poems closer together then I usually do. Peace. Hope you are Blessed, my friend.
Best Regards,
The Artist still known as: Manlypoetryman
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Enough of that intro. It is really great to be writing here on: "The Creative Exiles". I am lining up some of my best writings for this website. Going to "Bring-it" with a variety of "Poetic-able" Topics. So just kick back and enjoy some of the Poetry I send out to you. It’s all for “Entertainment” purposes only…so all you will have to do is read and enjoy my writings.
And, I really hope you do!
Now, it is time for me to go and write in a "Poet-icized" manner like those long ago “Men of Old” Poets would’ve once long ago done it. They have primarily inspired me to write Poems in a manner that is “Manly” like how they use to write Poetry.
Please stay tuned for more of my Poetry works.
Best and Humble Regards, Steve Walters
(Or the Artist still known as: Manlypoetryman)
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Dreams can take us to our inner most thoughts and desires. They can give us joy, if only for a few minutes, so we hold on to them as long as we can. Dreams can also heal us if we choose to let go of the past. Great poem, Steve.
Yes…We do seem to want to hold onto our Dreams. I know many times I wake up and think that where I was just at was awesome…but I just can’t seem to go back to the same place twice in my dreams. So… I just do my best to live my Dreams. Thank you for reading this one…and for your thoughts in your comment. It was nice of you to drop by and visit my little Poem on “Guided By Dreams”. Best to you!
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Like how “fired-up” this comment is…even if it is most likely “SPAM”. Hey, every little bit of support counts…Ha!
Steve what an incredible read. I love how you have learned to work your line with the …. line break. It is really effective in this poem. Everything fits together like a puzzle with all the pieces. Great work Steve!
Jamie
Thanks for mentioning the line breaks…that work like my brain works…in pausing moments with a word here or there…before the next pause…Ha! I always wish I could read the poem out like I intended the poem and rhymes to go. Looks like for one single moment in time…I might have lined it up enough for the reader to figure it out. (Ha, again!) Humble Regards to you, Jamie. Thanks so much for the reading and the commenting on this Poem: “Guided By Dreams.”