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.
Millennium Dream
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