IT DOES NOT DO WELL
H. W. Bryce
“It does not do well to dwell
On dreams
And forget to live.”
–Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,
as Harry gazes into the mirror of Erised;
the mirror that looks at the seeker’s deepest desire…
I wrote: re mesmerize.
No poem noted or started.
No poet ever made it to the publisher’s house
On dreams alone.
No man ever became an emperor by thinking alone.
That does not happen.
No man ever won his woman but in his daydreams.
She did not hear.
Indeed,
“It does not do well to dwell
On dreams
And forget to live.”
Dreams, my friend Puck, are all well and good mid summer
Upon a cloud,
But daydreams nourish not the actions must be taken
To make it real.
Strength of will, it takes, dear dream weaver, to nourish it
Into life.
“It does not do well to dwell
On dreams
And forget to live.”
So, buckle up your boot, my dreamer boy, and buckle down
To the job ahead.
To work! Tend to the mundane, lace up your plans and mix your mortar,
Lay foundation.
Build your bricks and lay them out one by one to build your wall,
To make your dream concrete.
“It does not do well to dwell
On dreams
And forget to live.”
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