seventeen

Dive for Dreams

Dive for dreams

Or a slogan may topple you

(Trees are their roots)

and wind is wind).

Trust your heart

If the seas catch fire

(And live by love--

though the stars walk backward).

Honour the past

But welcome the future

(and dance your death

away at this wedding).

Nevermind a world

With its villains or heroes

(for God likes girls

and tomorrow and the earth).

by E.E. Cummings