Beautiful Dreamer
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When we are young, many if not most of us like to think we are invincible, the world our oyster and every beautiful dream worth chasing. It may well be that we are able to make some dreams come true while others will invariably fall short of the mark.
An elderly friend once commented along the lines that what he hated most about growing old was that dreaming becomes redundant. “Dreams are about the future,” he insisted, “What future is there for ordinary folks like me who have neither the money nor energy to pursue impossible dreams?” It was meant as a rhetorical question, but one I could not resist answering.
As I see it, young people making their way in life have no more monopoly on beautiful dreams than religion has on spirituality. As we grow old, our mind-body-spirit is as likely to tune into our past-present-future just as it has always done- if we but let it.
Aged 75 and living alone, I cannot pretend that old age is as I imagined it years ago, and I don’t see much of a future for myself. Yet, recalling the better, kinder aspects of my past and present along with those with whom I shared them, continues to fill what otherwise would be long, lonely days... nights, too.
As
I have said many times on the blog, love takes all shapes and forms; friends,
places, and favourite pastimes as well as lovers. Old age may place limitations
on any or all of these by way of various medical, issues, physical or psychological reasons,
but they are part of who we are and that may well change outwardly,
but not inwardly.
The inner self is never too old to dream; if it cannot look forwards, it can always look back, and I defy anyone to say they have none of the better, kinder, things in life to look back on, not with regret for their having passed, but with thanks for their having come our way.
Such is life; such, too, is the stuff of sweet dreams. So, you ask, what about nightmares? Well, many of us have those, awake and asleep; I guess the trick is letting the light of a sandman’s lantern save us from being overwhelmed by the shadows it throws.
BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
I
am the glow
that
lights up any dark
encroaching
on
the mind-body-spirit
that’s
edging
too
close for comfort
to
an abyss,
watching
over us though we
embrace
or deny it
I
am close kin
to
the star we wish upon
as
darkness
threatens
to leave us feeling
abandoned, scared,
just
as we were whenever
we
felt much like
ill-chosen pieces of a jigsaw in
an
impossible dream
I
inspire the hopes
of things to come when life
is
as likely
to
fail us as we may well fail
even ourselves
and
each other now and then,
by chasing
rainbows,
only to kickstart yet more storms
in tea cups or wherever
I,
am Love, as eternal a companion
as
ever lit a Sandman’s lantern
Copyright
R. N. Taber 2021
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