A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes (as sung by Cinderella)

I seem to still be on a New Year tangent, full of hope and pro-activity and forward motion - think I'll ride the wave of optimism before the roots of reality take hold... :-)

SONG: A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes as sung by Cinderella

BOOK: This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution or Make a Dream Come True by M. J. Ryan

POEM: New Year Prayer by David Whyte

This robust heart involved

with too many worlds

for its own good,

this portion of creation

constantly trying

to make its self singular,

this chef at home in the kitchen

among the gleam of knives,

sommelier

among eclectic bottles,

sometimes dreaming

as a hermit among leaves,

drinking the centuries

of inherited silence,

sometimes the

social host opening

the doors and lighting

the candles,

often a father lifting his daughter

high up above him

and then

the husband

sheltered by night

attempting

to talk and talk again,

too often now

as the years go by

the son worrying

for a father sitting

Atlantic miles away,

in a silent

remembered parallel.

And now this

other parallel,

this symmetry

inside

for everything

on the outside,

the writer in winter

at his desk,

caught in the light,

beneath the window,

bringing together

the last and the first,

the middle and the edge,

the near and the far,

the troubled lives

all calling for the one line

and the one life,

for creation came together

in a central

unspoken wish,

to be held

and made one

like a god's blessing

out of nowhere,

the pen

somehow

touching a wound

that heals them all.

QUOTE: "Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." ~ Edgar Cayce