Dreams, Hopes, Death And Despair

• Ruben Barry, Grade 9, Brighton Secondary School
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'The Write Track 2015' competition

Dreams.

Each man longs to pursue his dreams.

Each man is tortured by his dream.

The dream gives meaning to his life.

Even if the dream ruins his life, man cannot allow himself to leave it behind.

In this world, is man ever able to possess anything more solid than a dream?



In this world,

Nothing is more changeable than a man's heart.

No man can avoid being snared in it's web and no man can suppress his own heart.

Man realises his capacity for joy through his experiences of love and his capacity for ruin.

Could it be even ruin beholds an irresistible fascination on man?



Those who dedicate their lives to another, inevitably shed their own blood.

Those who sacrifice themselves for hopeless love, cannot help but shed tears.

Dreams and hopes.

Death and despair.

By accepting and believing,

will they find their reason for living?