In My Dreams--By Gerald Heyder--United States

In My Dreams

Once upon a summer pond
the sun did cast its glow
as I lay dreaming on the bank
of places I would go.
A gentle breeze of lilac scent
came to cool my brow;
pages in my mind’s eye book
are turning quickly now.
I failed to heed the scripted text
that irks my memory
like whippoorwill with nightly cry
of forlorn melody.
Many suns and many moons
have yearly come and gone
haunting me with sinful age
of never finished song.
Nonfulfillment of my dreams,
places I did not go,
as once upon a summer pond
the sun had cast its glow.

Gerald Heyder is a published poet from Milwaukee, Wisconsin