:: Dream within a dream::

i have a research project to complete.
and today i went into haematology class knowing zilch about leukaemia.and went out just as blurry.oh and today, my groupmates and i spent about 3 hours trying to put in some drug names and their mechanism as well as the adverse and therapeutic effects into the lyrics of Pink's "So What".now the song is playing and playing in my head.It's so annoying!
so yea, you get the picture.
aside from school stuff, i have not gotten the chance to catch up with my readings. The last real book i read was John Connolly's The book of lost things. and that was a few months ago. Is a great book btw.

So, since i don't really have time to read novels, i now resort to poetry. I'm not much of a poem person though. It has always been hard for me to grasp the meaning of most poems. But once in a while, when i do get to grasp the meaning, or even catch a glimpse of what the poem is all about, it just reminds me of why i even bother to try and read them in the first place.

For this piece here, it took me three days to understand what it's about.usually i'd just give up and forget i ever read it.
But i'm glad i didn't. Because when i finally get it(parts of it anyway)., i just find it heartwrenchingly beautiful.


This is A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe.

A Dream
Within A Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe

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?

-The End-