Even in a Dream

"To sleep, perchance to dream,"
with childlike thoughts of sugar plums
though doubtful any child has seen one.
Not I in over 60 years of dreaming.

Cool pillow turns to heat as sleep evades
or keeps the body in an alternate state
of intellectual stimulation.
A wonderland of thought and vision
is the dream of youth.

Worries and tasks to long left undone
consume the midnight hours of the aged
who can no longer take task in hand
and lift it until completed.
"Ah, there's the rub!"

On stiffened joints and painful muscles,
a salve of youth would be refreshing.
If one could see the future,
would one go there?
Even in a dream?

Lines 19

Quotes from Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

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