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Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep - while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream

I reread this poem today and i still like it . yeah i know alot of people think Mr. Poe is uber emo..okay kinda of gotta point. But have you ever had a feeling that the reality we desperately try to grasp could not be real at all and all the fretting and worrying is over a dream within a dream . We dream at night. we (if your like me) dream during the day. But hypothetically if the motions we go through daily were the dream we live opposed to the dream we dream. Or if this all a dream to begin with? If all our world is a dream would people loosen the reins on trying to win the endless rat race we find ourselves in. Or would we finally sit back and enjoy our lives. stress free living the dream, well within our dream.


i dunno. just think about it or don't. but if any of my words or just the words of uber emo Edgar Allen Poe strike you leave a comment lets chat.

and on another note..the last 2 lines..don't know when or where but hopefully WILL be turned into a tattoo.