Reality of dreams

Oh joy,
The dreams of youth,
So wishful,
So tantalizingly dreamy,
So inspired,
So noble!
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Oh woe,
The reality of life,
So crushing,
So explicitly realistic,
So mundane,
So despicable!
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Dreams are always crushed by reality,
Stripped from us so cruelly,
Why must life's reality be so cruel?
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Let me tell you why!
The reason is...
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So we can keep on dreaming...
New dreams with which to fight reality.
This way we keep our sanity,
Our humanity!
For without dreams,
We would not be where we are.
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Bring on reality!
I have a dream for you!