'If You Never Had A Dream' Poem by Linda Winchell

If our minds could never take us in a dream,
Transport us to a much better place or time,
Then where would ones hope try to exist?
If it were not captured somewhere within our minds.

To conjure up a much more colorful world,
Where all was happy, peaceful and filled with joy.
Where love was all around us always,
Where everyone was good and kind.

This may not be the dream you dream,
But it is the one I have always had.
For one to live without a dream you see,
Would make daily living a little more sad.

We'd see the pain that rapes this world across,
And the devastation that wars present and past have brought.
But while you're dreaming....if just for that moment,
It brings ones soul... less of life's realities cost.