In Dreams

It is in dreams
      that I find what I seek
But I find no joy
      in that from which I wake
For dreams are only dreams
      and from them I cannot take
When I wake from slumber
     I find my heart is weak

What heartache I find!
When burrowed deep in
      the corners of my mind
What tragedy there is!
To always dream
      but never grasp

In my mind I live
     over, over and again
A love with me
     a love I can give
A life I long for
     the way I would live
But when I wake I am
     nowhere; I cannot pretend

© copyright by Michèle Aimée Lahaie, 2010