I Dreamed I Saw (Russell Calvin)

In the early morning I dreamed I saw This great city shinin With silver and gold Thousands of birds were flying And rivers like ribbons Unrolled Behind it this million mile rainbow Like the promise that will Never die And a choir that must have numbered Over ten-thousand Their voices went clear through The sky But then suddenly it happened And a crack in the ground Opened wide Dark clouds covered The daylight And the air was a poisonous Tide And that City fell down Before my eyes I was over almost when it started Where beauty was nothin remained I fell to my knees in my own self-pity My tears in the dust Traced a stain I wept there where noone could hear me I cried out "Who would have sealed My doom" When suddenly right there Where my tear-drops had fallen The great miracle of life Made a small flower bloom