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Very Same Dreams
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By Louis Gander
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Very Same Dreams

 

We fam'lies of leaves were hanging in trees.

Each fam'ly had dreams that were strange.

We all had our reasons for various seasons -

traditions that we wouldn't change.

 

Now none had predicted that we'd be conflicted

from each on our very own trees.

But roots had ambition to send us nutrition,

yet never a leaf could they please.

 

I also was one who was selfish with fun.

I knew it and God knew it too.

So loved He the world, a baby was curled,

in manger while chilly winds blew.

 

I was not above all the leaves of God's love.

No better was I than the rest.

So dropped. I to knees and prayed for all trees

and asked that all leaves would be blessed.

 

Yet root was the scholar, so it gave a holler

that not over it would they dwell.

The root, very tough, said he'd had enough -

and that's when the most of them fell.

 

Now when they sought Heaven they all were forgiven,

(at least that's what they had believed).

Yet oh, so enthralled, were the faithful God called -

but not those of them self-deceived.

 

Then one breezy day, winds tore us away.

We landed in faraway streams.

The next springtime rain it happened again,

when new leaves had very same dreams.

 

©2016 louis gander


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Submitted: Saturday, September 3, 2016

Last Updated: Saturday, September 3, 2016

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Born in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1954. It's the poem's message that matters- not the poet.


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