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Dream If You Must (still you must awaken) A lifetime of advice to give that you’ve accumulated It’s yours now to pass on to someone else There is no genius in a simple story of truth That is reserved for what their heart takes for itself I say, you say, and we hear what life is about What we record in our minds must be played back We tell our friend what happened and how it felt What felt lonely now feels together, there’s nothing we lack Your depth is deeper than you know Don’t follow where a mistake will go The harder your life, the more you lived No silver spoon to weaken your soul Only the hands that dig what they did grow We do not have to imagine things we cannot understand There is no need for a dream to weave itself into a portrait For as we cannot live inside a poem so too we must be honest The life we live is what we make of it, not a dream to interpret But to those who dream, and I am one We reach ahead of ourselves to be pulled along What is still out there that we can imagine? Love and peace, and yet, I must start my own engine Your depth is deeper than you know Don’t follow where a mistake will go The harder your life, the more you lived No silver spoon to weaken your soul Only the hands that dug what they did grow
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Mar 4
Mar 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM UTC
Dream If You Must (still you must awaken)
Dream If You Must (still you must awaken) A lifetime of advice to give that you’ve accumulated It’s yours now to pass on to someone else There is no genius in a simple story of truth That is reserved for what their heart takes for itself I say, you say, and we hear what life is about What we record in our minds must be played back We tell our friend what happened and how it felt What felt lonely now feels together, there’s nothing we lack Your depth is deeper than you know Don’t follow where a mistake will go The harder your life, the more you lived No silver spoon to weaken your soul Only the hands that dig what they did grow We do not have to imagine things we cannot understand There is no need for a dream to weave itself into a portrait For as we cannot live inside a poem so too we must be honest The life we live is what we make of it, not a dream to interpret But to those who dream, and I am one We reach ahead of ourselves to be pulled along What is still out there that we can imagine? Love and peace, and yet, I must start my own engine Your depth is deeper than you know Don’t follow where a mistake will go The harder your life, the more you lived No silver spoon to weaken your soul Only the hands that dug what they did grow
mark-lecuona
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Mar 4
Mar 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM UTC
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