>
> *Sometimes a dream lands so hard
> it flattens you.
>
> I liked it better before, you moan,
> waving my dream like a silk handkerchief,
> light and soundless above my head.
>
> It could have been anything,
> a kite, a bird, a large balloon
> with three passengers.
>
> Instead, it landed in your lap,
> you asked for it,
> secretly you had been reeling it in for months
> like a trapped fish.
>
> Too big for the net--
> it loves you more than you love it.
>
> It wants to stay here forever,
> smiling and cuddling
> in the bosom of your days.*
>
> ~ Naomi Shihab Nye, from *Words Under The Words*
xo-myriam
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