Dream Poem by Liam Flaherty

As I awoke to a hollow chest,
Where echoes crowded and congregated
Into a cacophonous roar
That shook the heavens,
I wept.
For I dreamt before
Of times long past,
And the roads that
Diverged.
The echoes asked me,
With interrogative whispers,
To wonder
And imagine.
I imagine the dreams,
Of hopeless beings,
Are saddled by the thoughts
Of the world around them.
And that each dream
Is laden with the eyes
Of those that watch
In rapt attention
To the breaking of the camels back.
What cruelty it is to dream,
To wish to reach the stars
From the mortal world
That drags us down to its center.
What cruelty is it to wish
To reach that far out of reach,
To touch the stars in the unreachable sky
And burn.