Dream Within Your Dream... Poem by Raimi Stranger

... can we touch
to know the bliss,
holiness gone
with
a kiss,
for a life deny what is?
-was this world made just for this?
... knowing all the walls descend
seen then meaning of a friend
can I show you
worlds must end
scan the vision lives portend
-innocent the dream
of truth
penetrates this world so rough
Love though always
is enough
never feed soul from the trough...


Edgar Allan Poe - 'A Dream Within A Dream':
Take this kiss
upon
the brow
and
in parting from you now
thus much
let me avow:
You are not wrong
who deem that my days have been a dream
yet if hope has flown away
In a night
or in a day
in a vision
or in none
is it therefore
the less
gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream
within a dream...

I stand amid the roar of a surf-tormented
shore
and I hold within my hand grains of
the golden sand
-how few!
yet
how they creep through my fingers
to the deep
while I weep
- while I weep...
O God! can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save one
from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see
or seem
but a dream within a dream?