I DREAM A DREAM

Why do I dream a dream I have never seemed I ever dreamed before? A dream about a sea that does not exist on a non-existent shore. I see a sea and a tropical tree on a land not there before and a people free who lovingly sing of a time of yore. I hear their song and sing along in a tongue I don't understand and the peace I feel is really unreal in this unknown, uncharted land. The perfumed air is clean and pure, the breeze is a lullaby, and what they sing recalls memories of a time and place gone by. I know there was not and could never be such a land and sea, yet they are real and I feel will always live in the dream inside of me.