A Dream Past Waking
At first glance you overcame me
It was a time of goodbyes and moving on
And there you were beside me
A gentle waft of springtime
Differences not easy to perceive
Yet commonalities drawing together
A reminder of things now past
A promise of things to come
A dream that persists past waking
Haunting the daylight hours
An intriguing palimpsest of many layers
Come to lure me to my one desire
Below a tale of sad experience
Above a story of bright possibility
And so it was for many years
You free to pursue your ways
The same courtesy afforded in return
Two paths following a like compass
We planned we built both moving on
A foundation I believed was stone
Was in reality one of shifting sand
A house of straw a tower of cards
Come undone in a seeming instant
Now left with dreams that persist
Past waking
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