Memories

It just so happens that today is not only Martin Luther King Jr. day but also the birthday of a wonderful poet. One of my favorites, Edgar Allen Poe. He would be 200 years old today.. wouldn't that be amazing?
I believe both of these men should be remembered for what they gave to the world respectivly so in honor of them both I'll leave you with a poem by the poet of day himself....

A Dream Within a Dream

          Take this kiss upon the brow!
         And, in parting from you now,
         Thus much let me avow-
         You are not wrong, who deem
         That my days have been a dream;
         Yet if hope has flown away
         In a night, or in a day,
         In a vision, or in none,
         Is it therefore the less gone?
         All that we see or seem
         Is but a dream within a dream.

         I stand amid the roar
         Of a surf-tormented shore,
         And I hold within my hand
         Grains of the golden sand-
         How few! yet how they creep
         Through my fingers to the deep,
         While I weep- while I weep!
         O God! can I not grasp
         Them with a tighter clasp?
         O God! can I not save
         One from the pitiless wave?
         Is all that we see or seem
         But a dream within a dream?
                  
                       - E A Poe