My father once told me that if you keep pushing
Your thoughts and dreams off until tomorrow
Putting off doing what you want or know you should do
You will end up with a pile of useless yesterdays
Empty, and meaningless things
and I think about him, about the future when I am
thinking about myself and today
Or thinking about you
And I see a pile of yesterdays
Empty, and meaningless things
But I have no plans that seem important enough
I think to myself
I think to myself that tomorrow is really
Close enough
But it’s not says my father in the echoes of my dreams
You are just too afraid of today
Because it requires doing
Not dreaming
And no one fails from dreaming
I think of what could have been
If I did instead
Of dreamt
My father would say
It could have been
Today
And I wake up and I go out
To do
Instead
Of dream.