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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dead, Dying and the Dreamer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Desire offered me a Joyful Blindness<br>new each time from the Caldron</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">such that I succumbed each time<br>moved thereby<br>to cheat Death himself<br>accepting thereby the double<br>conundrum<br>that a too intense Desire</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">can kill the Dream it inspires</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and sometimes too, kill the Dreamer</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">condemning him or her perhaps<br>to surfing the tides of blowback</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the Damocles Pillars of Blame and Time, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">seeing Fate toss dice</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">with his life</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">in the back room</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">where secrets hold</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">sway</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and lie down</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">with Soothing Regrets</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">who utters</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">"It's not your fault."</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Where pressures are</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">presented; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">where I get to </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> wed my Desire</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> where I get to</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">go away</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">into Indeterminate Time</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and come back</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">wondering where I have been</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and guilty bred I</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">punish those ugly muses</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">which time and time again</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">take me right back</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to square one</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">where next time I do it all over again; <br>Desire's slave or consort<br>undetermined<br>yet I am</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">lashed to the mast</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of that runaway ship</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">adrift with the tides</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">destination unknown, uncertainty</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">until the Final One</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">which is easily foreseen</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">in that scene</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">where the Reaper laughs</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">saying<br>"In the end all come to me</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">some crying, some denying</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">some defiant</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">some bitter draught drinkers</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of their erstwhile lives</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">but all succumb</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to my dark web at end; <br>yet in this<br>none I resent more</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">than types like you, " he said</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">"who come plumped up smiling</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">sated from Life's Desires.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> irritating me the more than the others</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">because those like you enjoyed their lives</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">despite my entreaties</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">that they should not.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Nay they wed their desires<br>fulfilled them<br>willingly paying the price<br>in Despairs coin<br>because you see my friend</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the Dreamers</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">cheat me<br>Death</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">even after they are dead.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A secret well known</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">but seldom recognized; <br>if you kill the dream, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">you, too, have killed the dreamer</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and their death my friend<br>is final; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">but in those like you<br>those with the capacity for rampaging Desire<br>preceding the dream</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">cheat me Death<br>and you are my mortal enemy.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Better you humans not understand</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">that the secret is<br>better to over-sip</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Desire</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">than not to desire at all</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">than not</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to Dream at all.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The Desireless</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">are the ones I crave<br>because they come to me already dead.<br>I like the one's who have spent</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">their lives self-denied</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">because they become<br>for me my dead and docile<br>and are easily plied</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> Into my Marching Lines<br>of the Well-Disciplined<br>and<br>truly<br>Dead Now and Gone.<br>The Dreamers<br>alas, <br>I've learned<br>cheat me Death</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=448379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">because their Dream lives on<br>and on.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a></strong></div>