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[Saille Willow]

Is it selfish?

How limited a paltry
Three-score years and ten
suicide outlawed
Yet we are told
It's bad wanting to live forever.

Is it selfish to dream dreams
beyond allotted time?
Striving for perfection and beyond
Reaching for our unlimited potential?
Is that not what is best
of being human?

Must we bury our best
Just to satisfy the fear
of the rest
ones that chooses blindness.
Must we limit our visions
so that others need not
question their realities
and beliefs and idolatries?

In timeless perspective
So much more can I give to this world
Through wisdom honed by experience and eras
compassion moulded right
by having infinite moments to stop
and listen to fellow human's plight.

The impossible becomes possible
and dreams reality.
Time enough to stop
for smelling roses
What joy to love and play
in timeless reverie

Is it selfish
just wanting to ride
the wave of time
till perfection is alive?

Edited by Saille Willow, 03 June 2003 - 08:45 PM.

[hughbristic]

Nice poem.

Thanks,
Hugh

[Saille Willow]

Hugh

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the feedback.
Saille Willow

[Discarnate]

Saille Willow - Your poem sparked a song memory of somewhat similar meaning...

Hazy Shade of Winter
(written by Paul Simon)

Time, time, time
See what´s become of me...
Time, time, time
See what´s become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
Look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky
Is a Hazy Shade of Winter
Hear the Salvation Army Band
Down by the riverside
It´s bound to be a better ride
Than what you´ve got planned
Carry a cup in your hand
Look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky
Is a Hazy Shade of Winter
Hang onto your hopes my friend
That´s an easy thing to say
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend
That you can build them again
Look around
Grass is high
Fields are ripe
It´s the springtime of my life
Seasons change with their scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won´t you stop and remember me
Look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky
Is a Hazy Shade of Winter
Look around
Leaves are brown
There´s a patch of snow on the ground
Look around
Leaves are brown
There´s a patch of snow on the ground
Look around
Leaves are brown
There´s a patch of snow on the ground

[Saille Willow]

Thanks for that Discarnate, it in turn reminded me of some studies done to determine the importance of having a dream at midlife. Daniel Levinson writes;" A life based upon a Dream has a special quality. Any other is at best a compromise and at worst a defeat."

"Without a dream we loose our our hope and drive, and sometimes even our health."
Harry R. Moody

"Does any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations and the like, but it would leave the minds of anumber of men poor shrunken things?"
Francis Bacon