We need not dream a thousand dreams,

For only few become real.

Who needs to dream?

            One needs not to dream of love,

            You may not find it.

Once again, I ask, who needs to dream?

            You need not dream of family,

            For what assures you of raising one

Yet again, I ask who needs to dream?

            Every time I go to sleep,

            Not one thought comes to mind and I weep.

So now, I ask who needs to dream

             and answer it mournfully,

            I need to dream those dreams of love

            and of family.

TO live without any is torture,

to live with dreams answered

            is what is sweetly yearned.

Diane C. Hundertmark

copyright  9/21 1999

Undated, but was written in 1999 and edited

today 5/20/2023.