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“Sweet Dreams”

November 11th, 2008

“Sweet dreams”

Why is it we say this to each other?

Is it merely random habit?

A friendly good night prayer?

Or is it, perhaps, because of some vague memory or unconscious knowing that

Out of a great dream this world was born

and continues to be shaped and molded and recreated constantly

By all of our dreams and the dreams of the stones and the stars,

The oaks and elks and elders now long gone and still the dreaming goes on

Dreaming itself with all of us dreaming ourselves into the dream

So dream sweet dreams people

I beg of you

Dream good sweet dreams

For all of us

Poetry