EPC: In Dreams
In another installment of Emo Poetry Corner, I'd like to indirectly touch on the holidays. Namely how much it stinks being single during the holidays. I'm sure at one point or another you've had to smile politely as a relative asks you how come you don't have a boyfriend/girlfriend. I know you've appreciated the Christmas cards/photos letting you know how your friends and family's family has been doing for the past year but secretly rolled your eyes in bitterness. (Oh wait, is that just me?) The bottom line is that it's hard being single around the holidays. You're alone, and everything reminds you of that fact.
Well, I'd like to let you know that there's hope! No matter how bummed out you get, I truly believe that love will find a way .... eventually. In celebration of that fact, here's a poem I wrote in 2008 inspired by the thought of dreaming of the One and looking expectantly in the future that indeed, sunnier days are on the way.
In Dreams
V1
I dreamt again last night.
A beautiful dream it seemed.
You were there, front and center,
One I know not and know wholly.
My heart swelled in your presence,
You're the once, I'm convinced.
I have no facts or evidence
Save what my every fiber shouts.
C
Nameless one, become reality.
Grace me with your insight.
Compel me to write of what I lack,
Courage to love and hope.
Now I know what to name you.
You're my soul's muse.
Everything I cannot grasp,
Everything I'm afraid to lose.
V2
And as I awake from my sleep
The details of you ebb away.
I jot down all I recall,
Hoping memories of you stay.
Specter of my desire,
You must linger longer.
There's so much to ask you,
So much you must reveal to me.
C
Nameless one, become reality.
Grace me with your insight.
Compel me to write of what I lack,
Courage to love and hope.
Now I know what to name you.
You're my soul's muse.
Everything I cannot grasp,
Everything I'm afraid to lose.
B
I know what you coming will mean.
Somehow you can wave into being
All the things I can be --
Everything I aspire, desire.
These things you understand,
Give voice to what I can't explain.
Hope will part the threat of rain;
Sunnier days are on the way.
C
Nameless one, become reality.
Grace me with your insight.
Compel me to write of what I lack,
Courage to love and hope.
Now I know what to name you.
You're my soul's muse.
Everything I cannot grasp,
Everything I'm afraid to lose.
--Jonathan