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Dreams in the Flow of Life

A Poem on Life's Passing and Continuity

By Henrik HagelandPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Dreams in the Flow of Life
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The tides pass away flowing like a stream

A child born into the spring of ages

My life changes vividly and I dream

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The young man search his place in life and love

Who is watching loving him from above

The tides pass slowly flowing like a stream

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He lost a few they are ancestral kin

A chill summerday like buds from jasmine

My life changes vividly and I beam

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Older and richer and older yet poor

Wind and the fall colours rise in a roar

The tides pass away howling like a scream

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Winter sets in with the coldness at heart

Soon he shall wither and from life depart

My life changes no more and others dream

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Above watching haunting trying to see

Forever garding you my child to be

The tide stands still no flowing like a stream

Eternal life changes I stopped my dream

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As a young man I wanted to have a child. Being gay and a father was not the perfect match at that time, but I tried to get a child together with a lesbian girl. It never succeeded. We were both sad. Later, as I married my husband, we tried to adopt a child. It was not permitted us.

Now this poem is the poem to the son I never had.

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About the Creator

Henrik Hageland

A poet, a writer of feelings and hope. A Dane and inhibitant of the Earth thinking about what is to come.

A good story told or invented. Human all the way through.

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    Written by Henrik Hageland