You Can't Keep a Dreamer Down

It may be hard to hold a dreamer up

But you can't keep a dreamer down

And as long as it has been by now

I'm finally coming around

In my life, I've come to know you're not a dreamer

At least not with me I'd say

I could only be true, in my love for you

Through the years, all but hidden away

In my life I've found love

And I've watched it go astray

It seems I've been picking up the pieces

Since I've watched us slip away

You took my heart by surprise

I'd hardly had a clue

But then you also tossed it just aside

How'd I know not what to do?

I'd thought when you love someone

That love, til death do us part

I could've died when we walked away

But death, it didn't even start

And for love to mean so much to me

I'm not sure I really knew

The only love I was granted

Was 'to thine own self be true'

Ah, love, it doesn't just go away

It just takes time to grow

Even love in its own right

Is something we'd come to know

Sometimes it just takes hanging on

Even despite the letting go

And other times its just to recognize

And share even what we don't want to show

I'd never would've been a dreamer

If I didn't have a dream or two

I never could've come to realize...

If I never had a dream of you.

Don C

Reviews

[reflectingus]

I agree, you can't keep a dreamer down. Dreams are a way of letting you hold on to hope, even when life might push you down, love may let you down, but dreaming would help bring you back on track. Poetry is beautiful, true feelings about life and love, and the it flowed so easily. I loved reading.

[patricia]

a mature write in many ways - throwing a beam of light of the transitions of love. It shows someone who is living and not just thinking about it. Loved the first two lines. Could be a little less restrained at times, although beautiful in its innocence and willingness to be vulnerable it skirts around the edges of emotive as though to hide the depth of feelings. Nice write. Enjoyed.

[lei]

beautifully penned.. i can feel the emotion and i know a bit about it.....


Ah, love, it doesn't just go away
It just takes time to grow

[Lily Mae]

It's so hard to have a love die or get lost in the dreams of yesterday.. In dreaming for a better tomorrow and allowing the hope of the dream to exist we are in a sense manifesting our own destiny..xo