Visions and Dreams
by Brenda Williams
1973
A "vision" is a dream with your eyes wide open__
when awake.
A "dream" is a vision with your eyes closed__
when asleep.
A "dream" of peace is wishing for it.
A "vision" of peace is seeing it.
To Sleep and Dream
by Brenda Williams
1973
I slept and dreamed that life is beauty.
I woke and found that life is duty.
Life is precious and very short,
In a few brief years, from infancy
to old age,
and then the end.
Not one precious moment is repeated.
Once it is gone, it is gone forever.
Fewer lives would be thrown away,
in sorrow and loneliness,
if we all remembers . . .
Life is beauty.