Dreams

Dreams are born in those moments When the mind opens itself And with the heart as its center The imprint of the vision blooms With the pedals of thought exposing The anther of our hearts revealing sweet pollen of hope and vision Delicate filaments that extend themselves, To the chance exposure of the Imprinting instance Where we see our calling Where we fall in love Where we see the self complete Dreams are carried through And nurtured within the safekeeping Of gardens carved on terraces Inside the chasm of the soul In places we guard zealously With the elastic strength of Labirynthic walls and delicately Crafted masks, constructed To deflect the passing glimpses Of occasional lovers and Misplaced passions Dreams are fulfilled In pieces, much of the time Revealing themselves As fractions, making the whole Sometimes unnoticeable A mysterious construction That harvests the ripened blooms Within our inner crevices Deliberately, almost secretly Dreams are sometimes destroyed By wind whipping through the cavernous Coils of thought and emotion Cold wind of disappointment Arctic storms carrying the whispers Of lies, deceit, and carelessly spoken words Understood by our inner gardens as deep truths Understood as richening soil for dream roses and rhododendrons That soon after wither and die Sometimes the pedals fall, ashes To give sustenance to a hybrid dream Wiser, stronger and with thorns Sometimes remains of frigid breezes Carry them off to unspoken places Places where denial sinks a landscape Into dark valleys And no seed or remnant escapes Dreams are not captive to the ruminations Of one’s own personal geography Daily depending on strong soil of good life circumstances To survive the days Instead, dreams arise in the strangest Of places, giving birth in numbers to those Who are strong enough to open themselves To the promise, the beauty of the moment, The imprinting instance of chance and melody The meekest, the poorest Can carry the deepest gardens Allowing delicate openings The poverty of an anther’s exposure.