Advice For The Dreamer

That man in the black coat,

with the grizzled cheeks and

tight skin around the throat,

has a purpose and a plan and

has no idea of either one;

That woman holding the cane and

walking with a limp cannot run,

and always wins the marathon and

always wins it by miles and miles;

That boy wearing the three-piece-suit and

tie owns the world's oceans and isles

and is completely broke and homeless and

lives by a dumpster and sleeps on tar;

And the only thing all of them did right and

yet wrong was to forget who they are.