Have you ever?

First real snowfall on the pines

Have you ever wondered about someone from long ago?  Have you ever thought what if? Have you ever given it the thought that it may perhaps be an option?  Have you ever given your daydreams credence?  Have you ever? 

If you were given the opportunity to converse with someone from long ago and to express your thoughts and how you felt at time, would you?  Could you? Could you be honest? Truthful?  Would you be able to share your deepest secret that you harboured for so many years - decades really, the deep seated thoughts that you carried with you for so long that no one else knew or that you just did not share with anyone - because would they really understand?  If you allowed your deepest thoughts and feelings to be heard aloud by someone other than you - would they then judge you or convince you that you were a dreamer and that those dreams died a long time ago and that you needed to toss them aside and not give another thought to them.  Could you?  Did you?  Or did you keep them inside of you in a safe place that only you knew about, that you never shared with anyone about your dreams that were dashed all those years ago.  The memories, the shared experiences, the ability to carry with you the good and not the bad, the laughs and the feeling that it would be okay one day even though that day was not marked on a calendar of time nor might never be.  Could you?  Would you?  Have you been hooked on a memory that you held near and dear to you?  What if that memory became a reality?  What would you do?  Could you do anything about it?  Would you consider that it might not be a dream, but could be a reality?  Could you ever? Would you ever? What if ever became today? 

What if anything would you do?  Could you be the person you were all those years ago and begin again?  Do you want to begin again?  Could you begin again?  So many more questions have come with the dream than you could have ever imagined in your mind all those years you carried the dream.  Now what? Now where? Who would have thought?  You! That is who! You would have thought - did you thought - you thought that one day, one day, it would happen you have willed it with your careful protection you afforded the dream that one day it would be a reality and not the dream that you kept safe and sound for all those years.  But now the dream has had a reality check and things are not as they were all those many, many years ago.  Reality has a way of getting in the way of dreams - even dreams from all those years ago.  So, you now just carry on and let the facts settle in and roost.  Now you take your time and adjust the dream to your reality.  Now you just take the days as they come and take your time now that the dream has been re-awakened. But, who it was re-awakened by, makes it all the better.  It was not you - no, it was not you.  It is so much better than you waking the dream and making it a possibility - because now the possiblities are out there on the horizon, now you have to figure out what to do with the possiblilites that have been presented to you. 

The sun has brightened my lil part of the world

Would you? Could you? Have you ever?

Enjoy the day,

Lady of the Oak