Dream-Dues

Like apples waiting to be plucked
Peeled wrappings of birthday and Christmas levies
All day suckers condemned
Taken away by loving mothers

Dreams

Abandon the risk of Life's sugar rot
Knowing gentle sweetness is always savored
Before the angry sour
That some eye rolls of pleasure are forever overdue
Even while seeking the danger
The longing for cotton candy laughter
A willingness to sustain bubble gum hair barbs
Just to smell the juicy
To hear the noise of layered laughter
To see Time Square's New Year madness
To...

Dream

To walk down an aisle
Awaiting bliss-enshrined promises
To believe in princesses
Awaiting their knight in shining armor
To garner points for accepting youth's naiveté
To know that dreams are here today
Often gone tomorrow

Yet

Dream we must
Why else are there dues?