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Nicholas Gordon |
Maybe dreams cannot
come true, but they
Are mountains that give shape
to the horizon,
Reference points to guide us on the way
Towards lands long promised us in distant
Zion.
If we never get that far,
we'll be
Nearer for the journey
we have taken,
Letting the next
generation see
Up close the
dreams they else might have forsaken.
The dreamer lives a bit beyond what is,
Having had the courage to say
no,
Existing in a future wholly
his,
Revealing through his
grace where we must go.
Knowing
well this world of lust and greed
In which the
dream but rarely marks the deed,
None could bear to dream but for the soul
Great enough to bear it for the
whole. |