HOLD FAST YOUR DREAMS

HOLD FAST YOUR DREAMS

Nightmares are ugly, horrible and frightful but dreams can be as pleasant, lovely and hopeful as you want.  It depends upon the dreamer to choose the quality of his/her dreams.

It is wrong to say that all dreams are illusions, hallucinations or fantasies. The true nature of dreams is determined by the personal nature of the dreamers. Whereas some dreams can have the elements of nightmares, there can be many which can be identified with hopes, desires, aspirations, ambitions, aims, yearnings, wishes and new plans.

It is dreams which sooner or later become realities.  Today’s dream is tomorrow’s reality. What turns a dream into a reality is however its active, passionate, well-designed and un-relaxed pursuit. To dream without making efforts to achieve its perfect realization and fulfillment is a fool’s wasteful act.  The dreamer must be a practical, dynamic person, to earn the name  and fame of a true, genuine, and realistic dreamer.

Reproduced below is a poem written by an American poet Louise Driscoll (1875-1957) from New York. She was of Irish descent. The poem quoted here is inspirational both in tone and intent and bears the title:  Hold Fast Your Dreams.

HOLD FAST your dreams!

Within your heart

Keep one still, secret spot

Where dreams may go,

And, sheltered so,

May thrive and grow

Where doubt and fear are not.

O keep a place apart,

Within your heart,

For little dreams to go!

Think still of lovely things that are not true.

Let wish and magic work at will in you.

Be sometimes blind to sorrow. Make believe!

Forget the calm that lies

In disillusioned eyes.

Though we all know that we must die,

Yet you and I

May walk like gods and be

Even now at home in immortality.

We see so many ugly things-------

Deceits and wrongs and quarrelings;

We know, alas! We know

How quickly fade

The color in the west,

The bloom upon the flower,

The bloom upon the breast

And youth’s blind hour.

Yet keep within your heart

A place apart

Where little dreams may go,

May thrive and grow,

Hold  fast----hold fast your dreams!

21^st January                                                 G. R. KANWAL