Inspirational Quotes"A Dream Within A Dream"

SHADOW

                  
All at once I had to become an individual, a leader, and a conqueror.
I feigned leadership,
Gained partial individuality,
And became a conqueror;
But I am still a shadow.

When I have one good friend
I become that person, 
I am their shadow
Always hiding in the background
Gaining strength and support from that person

I was separated once from my solid
And I attempted to be a shadow disconnected
But still a shadow
Then my life tie was severed and I had to find another

I had changed dramatically, thought I could survive,
But I was happy when I became a shadow again.
Now I am separated from all that I know,
Including my solid
How will I find another solid?
Who's shadow shall I be now?
HOW WILL I SURVIVE ALONE?

I am only partially an individual,
I cannot survive disconnected
Yet I must.

Loneliness has overcome me now
I am not a shadow, **but** yet, I am not alone
I am not an individual, I am nothing named,
In limbo between who I have always been,
And what I must become.
My battle **has** been hard, I have learned to conquer and lead
But **how** can I be alone?
How can I survive without being a shadow?

How will this journey end?
I will win I know, the conqueror tells me so
But I know in my heart, that it will not be easy
I will spend much time alone, as I have already done
ONLY NOW, WHO WILL COME TO MY RESCUE
I am distanced from all that **I** know
I am distanced from my hero
Who will be my hero now?

Do not answer, for I know the truth
I will have to be my own hero,
I will have to learn to be alone
And I will have to conquer the world
But, even harder **yet**, I will have to conquer my heart**.**

12/18/97
Michele Stewart

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1827
A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
by Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
-THE END-

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"I shall pass through this world but once, therefore, any good that I
do, any
kindness that I show, will not be deterred, for I shall not pass this
way
again."


"The truest happiness is that which you feel when you have made
someone you
care about happy, if you make someone happy and you feel no joy, it
is
because you did not care about that person."


"I hope that in some small way, I have made you smile or brought some
small
measure of joy into your world."

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