In the end all the dreams just scatter

In the end all the dreams just scatter
Like a kaleidoscope that lost its symmetry
Across time and space no matter what humans think
In the end potential flows every which way

What might have been and what had to be
Blend in memory like history
The truth or the perception matters not to me
Now has passed into the past
That neither grief nor sorrow nor wishes nor prayers can renew

In the end all the dreams just scatter
So vivid in our sleep, or the days of youth,
As time and distance mix together
To form imagined dreams and foggy memory

The past has flown down past the shore
Though no one is standing there
All are in the river of scattered light
Moving on like a kaleidoscope
That was never meant to have symmetry

Time swirls in eddies mixing hopes and dreams
The light of deep pools of thoughts gathered once
Evaporate as some relationships do.
Upstream gathered together
Then downstream mists of thought

Down to the sea of being flow our dreams
Some complete; some unfulfilled
As water distorts the light
so time or thought erodes our dreams together
In the end all the dreams have scattered

Written 07/02/2012 Gerry La Londe-Berg

Russian River meets the sea at Jenner

rest in peace

St. Rose Church Baptismal font

The grace of the Creator finds the souls

The father who did the best he could
May his soul rest in peace

The young woman who struggled and strived and fell to evil
May her soul rest in peace

The child who lost her life from the death brought by war
May her soul rest in peace

The son, the daughter, the child, the adult
The joy and the sorrow that will not be known
Because their souls rest in peace

May their souls rest in peace
May their life’s lessons be made clear to the souls yet to find peace

[All souls’ mass at St. Rose]

Of sadness and lost joy