DREAMING

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 Dreams of our fathers
 Many times unfulfilled
 Become our dreams
  
 We hear their stories
 Not read out of books
 But out of their lives
 We get acquainted with
 Situations and frustrations
  
 Must then, if we are to be,
 Chase after and make
 Their dreams become true
 Never forgetting that they lived this
 Suffered this dreaming, but
 Never stopped 
 Because to do so would be
 To lay down and die
  
 They were brave men and women
 Who never thought of quitting
 Women worked in the home
 Early hours – late into the evening
 Soothing rough edges and encouraging
 Never letting go of the importance
 Of what they were working for
  
 Now it is us and what are our stories
 What will be the underlining theme?
 Keep dreaming, because
 Your dreams will become true
 You have related to the past
 Now others will be relating to you
  
 Stanski
 September 13, 2019 ^