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