Our future path lies in our dreams and what follows is the dream of one human being who can visualize not only what is not right with the
present, but what can become right with the future.
Looking back through time I see that I came as a dreamer of dreams
as well as a child of the earth But learned to ignore the dreams And focus on real, material things master the ritual of becoming a successful individual in the real world Now I pause, wonder why
with our country's living standard so high teens kill teens millions of people are poor billions are spent on drugs to lessen pain, disease, anxiety, and fear Holes appear in the ozone layer polar ice melts
rains dissolve California cliffs India explodes the atom to show its' a player in the real world As night time falls and sleep calls Thoughts of material life dissolve in dreams of turbulent water devouring beasts
efforts to get somewhere but destination unknown I try to recall those dreams that I came to dream The screen before my eyes turns velvety blue-black spreads outward, inward everywhere, nowhere I sink into the bliss
of nothingness And then, from nothing appears a vaguely visible form molding an empty energy ball between vaguely visible hands with great care and delight while chanting a sacred medody
Until, in a moment of ecstasy the universe springs into materiality bathed from above with compassionate love The dream changes again people appear, free from fear working together in harmony
with earth, fire, water, and air I come awake knowing Now is the time for all human beings to recall their forgotten dreams which provide the means to move beyond fear, anger, strife
Bring the joy of compassionate love into material life.
This poem was contributed by Leonard Goodwin from his book "Journey Through Time - From the Great Depression To the New Millennium" (It is a spiritual biography in poetic form available online from Barnes & Noble or from the author, Leonard Goodwin) Email the author