Tonight I will dream the strangest dreams. I will say not "I am" but "I am yours" For otherwise the statement is merely axiomatic. Tonight I will dream the strangest dreams And the absolute exists within the relative Which exists within the absolute. I will say not, "Do I dare" but "I am alive" And "I recognize" and "I know" and most importantly "I love therefore I am." Do I need to say the I before I can say I love you? Or is love the bridge between I and You that makes both come to life? Tonight I will dream strangest dreams And in my delirious expectation Will arise a palace of love From which will be glimpsed a new world. Tonight I will dream strangest dreams Of a cobweb that will shine itself through me And with its unrelenting viscosity reveal to the world the creatures it holds. It is not I It is not you It is not everything and nothing It is just life spread between tree limbs and flapping in the wind Ensnaring what flies. Only today This evening As the sun goes down over the Potomac I will tell you How tonight I will dream the strangest dreams About love that lives through us both And illuminates souls with its light.
