When I was younger
I believed in dreams
and wondrous schemes
to make my life significant
and to have a place in the world;
but as I grow older and even bolder
I have come to understand
that all of my dreams and
those elaborate schemes
of what my life would be
never seem to reach the mark
no matter how earnestly
I pull back the arrow and fire.
But being the fool
that I am, a fool for dreams
and a clown with grand schemes,
I am ever the believer in
what I can do and what
I can be and what
I might achieve if
I dream enough and
pull back the arrow
and shoot into the unknown.
1/6/2017