A Dream Within A Dream

[Eva Libre]

"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.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand
How few! Yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep, while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?"

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~ Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within A Dream"
Art by Auguste Leroux

[janice wilson]

it is a dream

but we can wake up

to our heart being

the timeless divine within

[Richard L]

Hello! I had a dream but I never imagined it would be a dream within a dream though.