Abandoned Dreams
How old were you
when you abandoned your dreams?
When you became aged
Jaded?
Beat down and exhausted and tattered
With the realization that you would not achieve
What you had been striving for
your entire life?
What lead you to
conclude they could not be attained?
Was it those people who told you
No?
That your hopes were unrealistic
That you weren’t smart enough or popular enough
Or good enough
to have the life you aspired to?
Have you dreamed of things
others have never imagined?
Seen visions of breathtaking
Beauty?
Heard symphonies unplayed
Books unwritten, sonnets unspoken, plays unstaged
And thought
these things should be?
Do not despair
Your dreams are not dependent
Upon those who would discourage you
Nor upon anyone save yourself
They play upon your mind as an exercise
To serve as a reminder
That somewhere
Between reality and hope
Lies possibility
And that to believe in possibility
Is to dream
By Mike Turner
From: United States
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