A Dream Within A Dream ~ Edgar Allen Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?

Inspiration-Key West

While I was having a depressing dinner alone in the hotel's restaurant tonight, it was a makeshift ballroom converted into a restaurant due to the renovations going on at the Four Points Sheraton, I also had a chance to chat online with an old friend via my PDA. It suddenly struck me, with the kind of clarity that I only read about, that I had personally "connected" with this person on a whole different level, so many years ago. It happened in the most indescriminate way and under no particular curcumstance. In retrospect, I keep thinking back to the movie "The Breakfast Club", where a group of kids share a bond during a short period of a dentention, but the intensity of it transforms them all from children into adults. Then it really dawns on me, I will always love these these people. No matter what, when, or where.
Capt Jack