Dream

I had a dream my life would be

So different from the hell I’m living

So different now from what it seemed

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed

My god but I can't get Susan Boyle and this song out of my head!  Not a day goes by that I don't replay the youtube of Susan singing this song.  

I know I am not alone.  I know many of  us (especially the elderly) have a special feeling for this part of the song.

We often wonder where our life has gone. 

Why wasn't it all we dreamed it would be?

While things can always be worse.. so many times we feel exactly like this song.

It makes me wonder ...

If everyone has their dreams...  how many really get to live them?  Or even get close?   Or get any of it at all??

But I thank god for dreams... 

for fantasy and escapism ..

for the very small moments we get to live dreams, if only in our minds.  I don't think I could have survived without them.

I Dreamed a Dream

There is no dream like a dream come true.

I dreamed a dream in time gone by

When hope was high and life worth living

I dreamed that love would never die

I dreamed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid

And dreams were made and used and wasted

There was no ransom to be paid

No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night

With their voices soft as thunder

As they turn your hope apart

As they turn your dreams to shame

And still I dream he’d come to me

That we would live the years together

But there are dreams that cannot be

And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be

So different from the hell I’m living

So different now from what it seemed

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed