Dreams (Don Quixote)

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be."
Don Quixote de la Mancha, Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish adventurer, author & poet (1547 - 1616)


We are accused of being mad, of living in a dream,
But where is madness we may ask, and where lies sanity?
Perhaps it’s mad to think as real, the lunacy of life,
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where saneness hides?

Perhaps it’s mad to be too “real”, surrendering our dreams,
Perhaps in letting go of "life", our sanity’s regained,
For isn’t sanity the dream of life as it should be?
And do not hope and joy reside in dreams of loving deep?

© 2008 Petit Poet