Crash Into Me

In honor of Inception, I shall post an epic poem which is one of my favorites. I had this poem memorized as well as hung up on my wall right next to my bed so I could always see it. For some reason, it really inspired me almost because it made me question and challenge things myself. I can't help but believe in not only the movie, but also with the poem. I've spent a lot of Saturday nights alone in my room thinking about it and I've never come up with a good enough answer for myself, but I think this does everything justice.

"A Dream Within A Dream"

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,
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?

(The amazing Edgar Allan Poe)