Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Speaking of admiring talents, I have also consistently enjoyed Leonardo DiCaprio movies since I was eight years old. Yes, previously to Titanic. In fact, my favorites are The Man in the Iron Mask and Inception.
Combining the two along side the rather macabre elements, we can find a common denominator with Poe's A Dream Within A Dream and DiCaprio's Inception. Similar concepts with underlying masochism.
In a conversation I had recently, I mentioned how "everyone should have some sort of bucket list." To which I received the response, "making a list only leads to the possibility of disappointments." Grand. Considering my obsession with list making, I am constantly setting myself up for disappointments. I would have to be quite masochistic to purposely do this to myself.
Granted, to some degree that is true. In situations where you know better but you do (or don't do) something, anyway? Regardless of the most likely outcome or that things won't change, you continue to abuse yourself. And, everyone is probably guilty of that at one time or another. So, maybe we all have a bit of masochism in us. Yin & Yang.
