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IMPOSSIBLE DREAM,
A Lover’s Question,
July 2010 Version
I have an astounding dream to report.
It has me running in the semi-darkness.
I run with a key in my hand. It's a cylindrical key,
And has a single, protruding notch at its end,
The kind of key used to wind an antique clock.
Next to the wall at the end of my run stands
A giant, cartoon heart, painted, yet color so natural,
It rivals the red of a Red Delicious apple.
On the right near the top of this wondrous heart
A gold metal strike plate sets up over against
An aperture, the channel; I wonder, does it lead
To the lock that might open, release your heart?
Have I the key? Or do I dream only to wake,
Awaken to nightmare day of awful longing and ache?
Have I lost my mind? Has logic betrayed me?
Do I confuse dream wish with reality?
Darling, answer me soon! Does deep desire
Verge on truth? Will anxiety cease?
And promise of new, peaceful kingdom,
Is it fulfilled, here, in this query today?
Now I stand before you, You, my Higher Power,
And the congregates sense the blasphemy;
They whisper calumnies.
They say that I am my father’s son,
“He is the boy from the hardware store!
By whose authority has he right to reveal,
Who does he believe, who might he think,
He is to inform us his midnight imaginings?”
And me, their belligerence does not concern me,
Not a whit, though they rise up
And ready to condemn me.
I pray ... I might have definite answer,
That I am prophet in this house,
That I may begin this, my public ministry, positive,
Carry hope for life anew,
And have news extraordinary, good, for all to hear.
Down a space eclipsed in semi-darkness, I run.
I have a key in my hand. It's cylindrical;
A single, notch protrudes at its end.
It is the kind of key that winds an antique clock.
Darling, please, your answer!
Have I the key to open your heart,
Or do I dream the impossible dream?
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