Aged Dreams
When we were young
we chased our dreams
down forward-looking roads
but as the frost of life
breached our memories
what once were daydream’s daggers
now appear like Icicles.
When Innocence was pierced
every wistful second
brought new utopian dreams
to shine like golden daffodils
on fields of anticipated glory.
Our transgressions here on Earth
every jaded moment
and each Impulsive breath
have been washed away
in time’s liquid hope.
Now we stare at ghostly images
captured and hung
among rooms we're living in
to scare the loneliness of our winters
away from mind and into oblivion.
Our dreams no longer
tread those olden pathways.
They grope through clouded remembrances
none of which seem accurate.
Their sharpness has waned
and the frosty remnants
chill our souls.
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yes chasing dreams belongs to the young Phil - yet dreams when looked back on glow with those golden daffodils if we but let them - - though solemn a truly insightful write.
Ah yes, those young idealistic days matured into an acceptable truce of aspiration and compromise. The foggy remants now lingering as memories bring me joy though and do not chill my soul. Though for many i can see this may be their reality in later years.
You just got it so write .. frighteningly so ..
try telling it to my son though, or even my daughter ..
... and they would think we were having a laugh ...
... I would stake my pension though that it has always been this way ...
... respect sir ...
Memory with all its gaps and inconsistencies. You have captured that, and I relate, Phil A. Transgressions I’ve managed to mostly forgive, as there is nothing much I can do to change, and then bury. Dreams now memories, quite vivid and pleasurable. Thanks for all – a satisfying read.
So true, those magnificent dreams of our youth fogged by age, but some of those dreams became reality and created good memories.
Andy
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