Dreams

Dreams

Any dream is better than no

light in the dark.  No matter

how bad, at the end you wake up.

The next dream you may want

to keep past morning into afternoon. 

Or say it’s worse. Well, then,

just open your eyes.

Sometimes a dream recurs

until you write it down. 

Then you don’t have to dream

it over again.  You can read

what you wrote and say

it’s time to move on. 

One more dream, your last. You wait

at the edge of the river.  Clouds open

and all the dark will be gone.

                              —Donnell Hunter

                                        6 April 2012