Ancient Dreams

             December 29, 1992
       (originally written as a song)
(from my book 'Thoughts and Time')
Yesterday is on my mind -
Ancient dreams that
Paint our days like a rhyme

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CHORUS:  Memories of days
                     gone by and
              Still they reach and
              Bind us to yesterday
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              Ancient dreams that
                dwell in our mind -
              Memories
                 - repeating in time.

                                          Yesterday, it calls to me -
                                          Spinning yarns of hope,
                                          Of things to be ...

                                                        CHORUS: (as above)                         

                                          Ancient dreams, spinners of time -
                                          Life is more than dreams in our mind.

                                           Yesterday, so many years -
                                           A million dreams that
                                           Fail to end many tears!

                                                          CHORUS: (as above)

                                           No more rhymes, no yesterday sighs -
                                           Dream no more - be free of ties.

                                           No more dreams, no yesterday cries -
                                           Sleep no more, and open your eyes!

                                           ... Sleep no more, and open your eyes.

                                                                                                                                                                                             - wladicus -

TIME and NOW

...................(July 21, 1971)
(From my booklet 'Thoughts and Time' published 2001.09.02)

The world before is the world now,
Breeding the world tomorrow somehow,

There is no time, no loan;
All is now - the timeless zone.

......All that is physical manifests in time -
......All that is thinking follows that line;
......Thought is memories of happenings past;
......Thought is hope for things to last.

Thought, sweet memory's mime,
Accumulating, coagulating - time;
A psychic illusion, a binding reality,
An escape from cosmic totality.

......Released from memory's plough,
......Revelling in the eternal NOW,
......Unbound, unlimited, free of time;
......Free of thought's babbling rhyme.

........................._oOo_