Hold Fast Your Dreams

Hold fast your dreams!
Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And, sheltered so,
May thrive and grow
Where doubt and fear are not.
O keep a place apart,
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go!

Think still of lovely things that are not true.
Let wish and magic work at will in you.
Be sometimes blind to sorrow. Make believe!
Forget the calm that lies
In disillusioned eyes.
Though we all know that we must die,
Yet you and I
May walk like gods and be
Even now at home in immortality.

We see so many ugly things--
Deceits and wrongs and quarrelings;
We know, alas! we know
How quickly fade
The color in the west,
The bloom upon the flower,
The bloom upon the breast
And youth's blind hour.
Yet keep within your heart
A place apart
Where little dreams may go,
May thrive and grow.
Hold fast--hold fast your dreams!

                ~ Louise Driscoll

The Challenge

Do you think that your tomorrow
   Will be different than today?
Do you think the things you hoped for
   Will come true in any way?

By the thoughts you put in action,
By the dreams you strive to reach--
   You can shape or form the future
   By some hard-sought fact they teach.

Choose the good you want to happen--
   It surrounds you in the "now".
You can make or change the present . . .
Let God's wisdom show you how!

   Take the path that seems to open:
For you're walking it today!
You can even change tomorrow
If you let God show the way!

                    ~ Roxie Lusk Smith