The dream was a deeper feeling of emotion There was nothing to hold it back No notions of manhood Or sanity Or walls to build Or stones to carry Only bare feet And faith in our differences As shapes of anger and longing float by But as he looked upon them they changed And he realized that they did not want to him to know So instead of looking He felt their presence And the room suddenly was full of light Not because his eyes were filled with the sunrise But because his soul was awake Every emotion he had ever felt gathered before him And none would look upon him For they could not ask of him what they could not give And when he finally stood up He took his time There was no reason for haste Or impatience His life would now forever know That a dream was the way inhibitions yield to truth And that emotion is the only way to love