Mar 2013
You wake up and you find she was a dream.
A dream that gave you happiness,
A dream that gave you sorrow,
A dream of all those yesterdays,
A dream for those to morrows.
She’s a dream of life and loving
In a world that’s unforgiving,
As she takes you by the hand;
And leads you through the quiet;
Through the valley of all loneliness,
Passed the shadows of those forgotten.
In the darkness ;
Of, the night.
Dan Gray
1972
A dream that gave you happiness,
A dream that gave you sorrow,
A dream of all those yesterdays,
A dream for those to morrows.
She’s a dream of life and loving
In a world that’s unforgiving,
As she takes you by the hand;
And leads you through the quiet;
Through the valley of all loneliness,
Passed the shadows of those forgotten.
In the darkness ;
Of, the night.
Dan Gray
1972
I wrote this when I was 17 and home on leave. At the time I was really into Leonard Cohen. The funny thing is after 40 years, this is the only poem of mine that I can recite from start to finish. I remember the words going around and around in my head and I had to write them down ... guess they are still going round and round :-)
