Trial of a Dreamer
The Plea
I stand accused for living a dream
the burden, the sentence, reality.
The gavel the pounding of my heart...
Guilty, guilty, please hear my plea
I beg to dream outside reality!
Self defense
Factual judge, impartial jury,
I plead to you in honesty!
There is no datum to this state
what's real I unforesee...
This truth is honesty!
I live this dream within a dream
I grasp for grains of sand.
But most escape and few remain
as tears within my hand.
I have built my castle...from this sand...
The years forebode what I conceive
to see what I've not seen.
A pilgrimage so high above
before the heavens gate pristine;
this is what I've yearned...and seen!
Too few, too few, have made their way
from what's real to what is dream!
Left bound and chained within despair
reality was not what it seemed;
this is why...I live in dream.
Accuse me not of living dreams
for dreams to me are real!
I see your eyes and your disguise
and the truth that you conceal!
For in my eyes I see the skies
and my friends, to me, that's real!
I see the ghosts of distant coasts
to me, my friends, that's real!
I hear the pleas of dying trees
to me, my friends, that's real!
I see the shrouds in dark veiled clouds
to me, my friends, that's real!
I hear the cries of Monarch butterflies
to me, my friends, that's real!
And I care to choose the love of Muse,
yes, to me, my friends, that's real!
Accuse me not of living dreams
for dreams to me are real!
Your day will come this song you'll hum
and a dream you'll touch and feel!
One day, too soon, you'll touch the moon
and you'll know that dreams are real!
In truth...all minds will heal!
Judgment
I act upon decree past gone
and your sentence,
"What's real is real!"
With reality repressed there is a nest
in which this state conceals!
But if you dream you'll find a seam
between these bars of steel!
Ha ha ha!
You see, steel is for real!
The Dreamer's edge
Before my eyes I see the bars
for I the honoree.
Without fail my mind set sail
to a land in reverie.
There I flew into the blue
now I the honeybee!
With each wing these words I'll sing,
In dream...I'm always free
in dream...I'm always free
in dream...I'm always free
© Willow