Forgotten Dreams

A little poem about forgotten dreams.  I am juggling about 4 posts right now that just don’t feel like they want to get posted!!! So while I wait for them to be ready, here’s a quick little poem I penned today!  I seem to be meeting a lot of people these days that resonate with this message?  How did we forget what we came here for?  How did guilt and his friends move in and take over our dreams, our hopes and end up cajoling us to settle for what’s safe?  

Is there anything in your life that you settled for instead of going all the way?  

Consider this poem a little teaser or a small token…for making you and me wait for Part VII of the when I grow up series…it is on its way! I promise!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you came home one day to find guilt living in your home
Wearing your clothes,
Sleeping in your bed,
Pretending to live your life,
What are you to do?

Who let guilt in when the doors were all shut?
Who opened the doors?
Who made the cracks on the walls?
Who made you turn away from the truth that you once knew?

Guilt is what robs you of sleep,
Sprinkles fear dust when you dream,
Reminds you of the bills that need to be paid,
Shows you the homeless guy on the street,
Ties you up in doubt till you beg for mercy,
Please no more…there is no need!

I give in!
I will turn in my dreams,
To stand on solid ground,
For the bills need to get paid.
And the world… is just mean!
Let me forget me,
The castles, the hopes, silent pleas
All the people  and things
I could have been

We need bread to eat
Solid ground to sweep
What remains of the bitter crumbs,
Of the life we just never got to meet!