Dreams Are This Fragile

Dreams Are This Fragile
Dreams are this fragile insubstantial as a thoughtdrop the moments when those timesbecome like a cold reality
and those delicate dreams tearlike tissues to fall as paper snowflakesacross a dark green carpet.
These are your dreamssomething precious to holdlike a rare delicate butterflyor some other living beating thing
with a soft tremulous heartbeatso soft, like a thicker warm momentpulsing under your fingertips.Something precious that can take hold
of the insubstantial air to take wingacross these endless skies to take your dream soaringto some high safe mountain
Where your tumbling tearswill not wash these dreams away.

[Books by David Hadley are available  here  (UK) or  here  (US).]