Descendants Of These Dreams...

These dreams do not come from man
Man is the descendant of these dreams

Near the beginning
dreams gave birth to clouds
that wept upon the abyss below
until the earth could grow there
and dreamers would be born
to dream the eternal dreams
and offer up laughter and tears
so that clouds could raise these back
for the dreams to then receive them
and use the laughter to power the sun
and the tears to fill clouds with rain again
in the way these ancient dreams devised
to nourish more than dream and dreamer

These dreams do not come from man
Man is the descendant of these dreams

There is no question as to
the origins of chicken or egg
For roosters only cock-a-doodle-doo
as such curious omelets are served-up
to be devoured or left to waste
only some time after our dreams
have brought us to breakfast

These dreams do not come from man
Man is the descendant of these dreams

Old dreams so light when they were born
-as light as lightest breeze in gentlest sky
fall under the weight of dreamless tears
and are cast into the restless earthly dust
that covers-over them with sands of time
as the earth becomes their tomb
and life is wilted by their death
as reality becomes their after life-hell
with no dreamer to dream them back
as skies grow far too dense and heavy
for dreams to ascend their way beyond
or man to remain upright beneath them

Such dreams do not come from man
Man descends from these dreams

It is through our minds that
dreams perceive themselves
This universe cannot be perceived
and we never really realize our selves
We only ever dream that we do
   or rather,
our dreams imagine us
to do so

These dreams do not come from man
Man is the descendant of these dreams

So let us not be weighed down
by our own earthly dust and tears
Let us be made light
and easily carried away by dreams
so that they too might be lifted up
For dreams do not come from man
Man is the descendant of these dreams
and thus cannot ascend beyond them