Love Poem: Once I Dreamed a Little Dream
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Written by: Poet Tellaferro

Once I Dreamed a Little Dream

it was of someone I once knew
but I did not yet know 
it was of love and kindness 
a union of spirit a familiar soul 
but this was only a dream 
drifting in my night 
my heart takes flight 
during summers sad moments 
all alone in dreams dreamt of you 
I feel you I know you or how you are not
this dream will linger in my heart 
when I awake the sadness returns
a bittersweet feeling of losing something 
unknown in a dream
like the drops of doom 
I could not shake years 
of isolation from my heart 
deep in my soul
were I not to chase the dream 
Would I not know the love of divinities' devotion?
If I don’t try…
…could I survive the inevitable
empty Room…
A soul takes when love breaks.
I pondered why you were sent 
once I found someone 
a time long ago
Someone to have N to hold 
someone I never knew 
I was afraid of it 
afraid it would feel small n fall away 
like my dreams dreamt along the way 
and I will feel weak and lie awake 
wondering why
I would walk in the afterthoughts of you
I awake with the sadness 
from a Dream, I once Dreamt 
of you or someone I thought I knew
It will return as bittersweet feelings
I could not scrub away 
the feelings like bitter thick dew, 
maybe that was my fear
bloody and cruel, 
I could not run from dreams dreamt of you
Afraid it would break a fragile image of you
until I woke and that feeling did not flee
Was not fragile or fleeting like morning dew
As this was reality  
a dark but sweet feeling 
I felt memory cover me
I try not to flee 
I did not want to shake 
your future visions free
As you are sold real mine to hold
years still come and go 
always something new 
And now I will dream a different dream 
of one spent forever with you