Dream: 2025
By: Jonathan Pofsky, MFT
www.marinstressanxietycenter.com
Say goodnight, close your eyes
And drift into fiction
A new world opens up
With passion, heart, and conviction
The dreamworld reveals
You’re a part of Earth’s team
In service to awaken
The I and We dream
It starts with an idea
A spark or intuition
Of a path you may take
That may feel like a mission
Purposeful, powerful
The line of your intent
That calls you to the mountain
To begin your ascent
Towards a sun shining down
Splintered warm rays of hope
A dream’s sparkling eyes
Shine a questionable scope
You start at the end
New vision in a birth
But blind to the pathways
In your traverse across Earth
Every new sight and sound
Every new threat aggression
May you embrace a new start
Through every transgression
That will bring with it fear
Generous helpings of doubt
That will need your compassion
To find your way out
Guidance will come
When you’re ready to receive
In a world where it’s tough
To trust what we perceive
Learn strength when you’re weak
And kindness in your rage
Learn calm with every stress
Present turning the page
Where the words that you choose
Write the next chapter line
As you find the routines
That become their own shrine
Where the fire burns bright
Fuel of purpose and meaning
Built on pain stuck inside
That is ready for cleaning
Rise above, work it though
The real shit you feel
Letting go is the key
That makes your dream real
Where this fiction takes form
The door is now cracked
The years may slip by
When on your soul’s pact
You commit to dig deeper
Find that endless stream of love
Your heart nourishing wisdom
From a divine source above
That tells us we’re connected
Through all space and time
Where deception and division
Become the true social crime
Throwing rocks at the sun
Can make you look busy
The comment section of life
Can make our brains dizzy
Where we lose the direction
The purpose, the hope
Generations of kids without
Knowledge how to cope
By example we lead
This flawed human form
Our humanity we exhibit
Will be the new norm
And birth new ambition
New passions new dreams
Exploring where we’re curious
Not as lost as it seems
And if it feels like a privilege
To embark upon a dream
Tell that to the child who
Sees life as a scheme
To take or to steal
To get what is mine
What you teach in these days
Will make more sense in time
On your uphill adventure
Where dreams may seem futile
A life without a dream
Seems toxic and brutal
For dreams let us sing
All creations of art
Its dreams that prompt learning
To make our brains smart
So you can figure out
How to make this place better
Timeless words of wisdom
You write down in a letter
Dear everyone of everywhere
Can you love instead of hate
Will you turn the dark tide
That threatens our fate
See the me that’s in you
Our shared grief and trouble
We all will feel separate
In our self-obsessed bubble
The time it is now
A revolution without name
That embraces how we’re different
And also the same
So dream if you choose to
The choice it is yours
Without your bold vision
We’ll have nothing but wars
Is that the future
That you want to hold
May we dream up a dream
We can still dream when we’re old
Where we then pass on
To the next dream in time
When we leave our bones dusted
And our dream in a rhyme
That write your hero’s journey
The unfolding spirit tale
Leaves your legacy of dreams
As you pass on though the veil