Perchance

I've lived inside my dreams so long
So long adrift in reverie
And so I find no place among
The world of men is place for me

And I have dreamed my dreams so hard
So hard it is to dream as I
And harder still to watch each shard
Of shattered dreams go drifting by

And dreaming I have grown so tired
So tired of hands that grasped and gripped
And reached for what I have desired
And through their grasp all dreams have slipped

Then shall I say so long at last
To this hard place in which I weep
When ev'ry dream has drifted past
And tired now I dream of sleep

And nothing have I gained to show
For dreams among the world of men
So finally to sleep I go
And I will never dream again