Are Dreams the Truth?

My poems are colored by lies;

else a faded memory dies.

Poems may be remembered dreams

rather than the truth, it seems.

My dreams may be more colorful

but my life has been wonderful.

I cannot tell them apart.

Is anyone else that smart?

The truth may not be better,

so i mix them together.

Then, as my memories fade

colorful stories are made.

What seems like the truth to me

may or may not truly be.

Walt Abbott 4-28-2011