Like pictures of paintings

I try to remember my dreams

 

I remember, but only embers of the flame remain

To claim the blurred images of beasts

 

Beasts in motion, emotion on an open field roaming

A green ocean growing free of lucidity

 

As they walk, they leave imprints on the memory foam cushions of my brain

Each step, a biographical film based on a true story

 

My story

Your story

 

Cinema playing

On the big screen of my Dream Theatre

 

Each day, a grand opening

On closing night

 

Each night, comedy, romance, or horror

I watch, I laugh, I love, I cry

 

After each show,

I fight to remember my own story

 

It eludes me where the memories all went

What the dreams all meant

 

A long line of me, myself and I

Navigate the red carpet of a stop sign

 

No reentry

The teller tells me, but I tell the teller

 

Tell me

 

Is it no I hanging on the poster above your head?

Is it not my story being read?

 

Please, tell me

 

How am I supposed to follow my dreams

If I don't even know what they mean?

 

Then I hear it call

I press my ear against the great theatre wall

 

An imprisoned voice cries

Let me go

 

A reverberating echo

It say let go…

 

Let go

Let it go

 

To let it go

Is to let me go

 

So I strike with my fists of liberation

Upon the walls of Californication

 

Until the bricks crumble and fall

I notice that there are no seats or screen at all

 

In the middle of my Dream Theatre

There it stood

 

A blank canvas

A paint brush

 

Where I can draw

All of the shoulds, coulds and woulds in my life

 

In that moment, I stopped trying to remember

I began thinking beyond the present

 

Dreaming is not a spectator sport

You can't sit in the back seat of your goals and dreams

 

My dreams

My future

 

Future

 

A future business leader is not a dreamer

They’re a doer

 

I paint in the colors of red, white and blue

Service, education, progress

 

Progress

Let's make some progress

 

Let’s move forward together in the name of progress

 

Let’s keep dreaming

Let’s not stop there

 

Let us paint

Let us paint our dreams