Fragile Dreams

The following poem was an excersize done in school on blended poems. Blended poems combine your words with someone elses line by line. My blended poem is with phrases by Gerda Weissmann Klein on her time in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

At night, I dreamed of the future

What could have been

These thoughts were a wonderful escape from the present

I was lucky enough to imagine my way out

And pretend what it would be like

If the war hadn't happened

Running away from the nightmare that was my life

Playing with the fragments of my dreams

Saying farewell to bygone things

The reality which I had always taken for granted

Even doing simple, mundane things

Now became the most remote fantasy

At night, I dreamed of the future

- Floyd/Klein

3/12/08