Dare To Dream

I dare to dream

I dare to hope of things glorious

I long to know and create beauty divine

A lifetime of voices have told me I could not

A blizzard of lies from the lips of those

So beaten that they believed it

Their poor shriveled souls too terrified

To dare to believe the truth

Seeking to disallow me to soar

To fly in the face of false 'realities'

That had ever only choked them

Defeating them into faithlessness

But Someone has conquered death before me

And beckoned me to follow

That I too may overcome

Walk over all sin, sickness and death

As I walk in the steps of the Master

The breath of God will lift me

And set my yearning feet

On the path of righteousness

To share in the Glory divine

And be a brother to the King

Stephen Pursell, 12/98, revised 5/7/15