Naomi Shihab Nye Dream Quotations

For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.