Thursday, June 7, 2018

Edgar Allan Poe

A Dream Within A Dream


Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Do we think of life as being real?  Or do we live life as in a dream?  Whose dream?  Or a dream within?  What are dreams exactly?  And do our dreams come true?  There is a fine line between fantasy and reality.  Sometimes our minds do not separate between the two...  Our minds remember our memories as well as our fantasies...  Hmmm...