[Soaring Feather]

US Navy Presidential Ceremonial Honor Guard Drill Team

[NicknamedBob]

The World I've Dreamed

I’’m sleeping through the next ten years.
By then, there should be no more fears.
Our leaders will have fixed the stuff,
That troubles me. I’ve had enough!

So I’m taking off for a decade or so,
To give them time to have a go,
At solving all the things we tried,
To only hear the cry, “Bush lied!”

It’s gotten wearisome, you bet!
But here’s a thing I’ve not done yet;
To take some years and sleep it through,
Then see the magic that they do.

They’ll fix the things that trouble me,
And there’ll be peace and joy, you’ll see!
I want to see the world they’ll make,
So let me be until I wake.

And if perchance things don’t go well,
Don’t wake me. Let my slumbers dwell.
In peace I’ll dream of once fair skies,
And church bells ringing out their cries,

Young maidens fair with ribboned hair,
And perfumes in the soft Spring air.
Don’t spoil my dreams with somber tale,
Of how they try, but somehow fail.

Like Rip Van Winkle, ‘neath his tree,
Just let me sleep. Don’t bother me.
When all is perfect, as they have schemed,
Then wake me to this world I’ve dreamed.

NicknamedBob . . . . . . November 11, 2006

[Lady Jag]

Good Veterans' Day afternoon!