Hold fast your dreams! <br />Within your heart <br />Keep one still, secret spot <br />Where dreams may go, <br />And, sheltered so, <br />May thrive and grow <br />Where doubt and fear are not. <br />O keep a place apart, <br />Within your heart, <br />For little dreams to go! <br /> <br />Think still of lovely things that are not true. <br />Let wish and magic work at will in you. <br />Be sometimes blind to sorrow. Make believe! <br />Forget the calm that lies <br />In disillusioned eyes. <br />Though we all know that we must die, <br />Yes you and I <br />May walk like gods and be <br />Even now at home in immortality. <br /> <br />We see so many ugly things— <br />Deceits and wrongs and quarrelings; <br />We know, alast we know <br />How quickly fade <br />The color in the west, <br />The bloom upon the flower, <br />The bloom upon the breast <br />And youth's blind hour. <br />Yet keep within your heart <br />A place apart <br />Where little dreams may go, <br />May thrive and grow. <br />Hold fast—hold fast your dreams!<br /><br />Louise Driscoll<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hold-fast-your-dreams-2/
