Dreams and Reality

BY DR. AGONSON

What dreams remain to me?
What visions do I see?
Within this cloudy veil
no sight my hopes avail.

Lost in a fog of lies
amid a thousand cries
the voice of reason dies.

And now that nothing’s left
and all the world’s bereft—

The sun! I see the sun.

And what are shadows worth
within the new day’s birth?

The truth I finally know.
Should I more sing my woe
when here, the light, it grows?

“What dreams remain?” says I,
“or visions blind my eye?”
From out this cloudy veil,
I now do boldly sail.