Dreams to Hold Onto

"Dreams to Hold Onto"
Watercolor and Pen & Ink

She dreams of change
beyond her daydreams
where thoughts are fleeting
and full of folly

Staring out school windows,
as a child,
longing for fantasies
to drape around her
and pull her near,
blinding her senses,
snuffing out reality

light beams peer into her eyes,
teasing, lingering
and then melting away
disappearing
through fleeting fingers,
only a memory remains

So much more she grasps now,
what she wants, she holds onto
the possibilities
become truth,
the denials drained
into depths no longer needed

Her purple robes
flutter in the winds,
light as a feather, she is
and her fluttering heart
she feels pounding
beneath her

She has dreamed
of this day
and dancing on
feet so detached
from earthly holds
Fulfillment fills her up

And dreams once lost
have returned to
reside within her
no longer will they depart
no longer will tears be shed

For her heart holds them
tightly, dare she
ask this day to never end,
she does dare, and dances
through the night, and the
stars serenade her.