This is Minty’s tattoo.
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?
- Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within A Dream
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
- Excerpt from A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
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Such a nice quote. Off-topic, I love your surface piercing! You pull it off so much better than most. <3
great words and writing, suits you well
thanks guys! it’s been a year since i got this and i just started adding to it last month. i know have giant poppies (representative of sleep) from the front, over my shoulder to the back. and thanks for the surface piercing comment!