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Deciding to Dream

December 17, 2011
By mhardesty76 SILVER, Franklin, Massachusetts
mhardesty76 SILVER, Franklin, Massachusetts
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I know that I will always remember those nights,
In Hermosa Beach, California.
The nights where over the buzz of traffic,
You could just barely hear a pianist play.

I would lie in bed,
Thinking about who could be playing such wonderful music
That lulled me to sleep so well.
I wanted to meet that person,
To get to know them.

But on the last night,
As I crept out of bed,
Ready to follow the music like a rainbow to a treasure chest,
I decided that it would be better to not open the chest,
For what if it was empty,
Or what if a shallow person lay inside?

So I left the chest closed,
Because I knew that I would never stop dreaming of what it held;
And I knew that I would rather dream of the full treasure chest,
Than run the risk of opening the chest to find
A startling being inside.


The author's comments:
I wrote this after staying with my grandparents in California. Each night, I would fall asleep to someone playing a piano. I asked my grandparents if they noticed the music, which they didn't. I pictured the person playing to be a boy about my age, someone who I could spend my time with over the vacation. I asked my grandparents if there was such a person living nearby, and sure enough, there was. So I thought, what if I went to meet him, what's the harm? After deeper consideration, I figured it would be better not to see if it was that boy playing the music. For what if the boy was a jerk? Or what if there wasn't a pianist after all? What if it was just a recording? So I decided that it would be better to let myself dream about the perfect situation then find out that my dream wasn't true after all.

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