Our dream

’Twas some dream I dreamt
Without rights or wrongs
Without fear, plight without
Sans surrender, sans fright
O gentle dream, comforting me
In the night of might
Stay, stay in my mind
Lest the morning of righteous fog
Obscure you out of sight.

Tomorrow dare not pollute
My dream, that dream.
Neither power, nor conceit
Neither bias, nor hate
Can snatch my dream, that dream.

Time dare not erase
My dream, our dream
Division dare not divide
My dream, our dream.
Follies behind old wounds
Sleep peacefully in their graves
Reopen they might,
Will not, cannot, dare not
Kill my dream, our dream.

Dreams cannot die,
Dreams will survive
History won’t forget
My dream, our dream.

Once upon a time
Some brave dreamers
Died to protect
My dream, their dream, our dream
They wrote down that dream
To pledge, and live by
They cannot die again for
My dream, their dream, our dream.

So let us all dream tonight
My dream, their dream, our dream.
That ancient, peaceful and happy dream
Yours and mine and ours only dream.