Dreams, by Danny Kemp

A psychiatrist stands watching, in a pathology lab.
An anaesthetist holds a needle waiting to stab
The brain that needs examining because it refuses to die,
Whilst living in a world that only lives within its own lie!

The brain is extracted. It’s trembling, fighting for air!
The needle misses its target. The psychiatrist runs from there!
The pathologist cannot examine so few samples of blood,
As the brain rushes onwards creating an unfathomable flood!

Knowledge is scattered far away and afield.
Learning is gathered unleashing a giant yield.
Education saves billions from an otherwise ignorant death,
But the world continues rushing into oblivion without any redress.

What insight can be garnered from such a simple analogy?
Is it one where you believe that it’s only I in need of therapy?
Or, can you see the truths hidden in amongst so many lies,
That pure knowledge is powerful but not seen by most eyes!

It’s not what you have that makes you what you are!
Nor is it who you know that can carry you high and far.
It is what you believe in surrounded by so much vanity
That gives you the ability to make your dreams your reality.

About Daniel Kemp

Daniel Kemp is a seventy-four-year-old member of The Society of Authors. He is also a bestselling writer. He writes stories that appeal to those who like challenging themselves to solve mysteries that are set out before their eyes. His introduction to the world of espionage and mystery happened at an early age when his father was employed by the War Office in Whitehall, London, at the end of WWII. However, it wasn’t until after his father died that he showed any interest in anything other than himself! On leaving academia he took on many roles in his working life: a London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed London taxi driver, but never did he plan to become a writer. Nevertheless, after a road traffic incident left him suffering from PTSD and effectively—out of paid work for four years, he wrote and self-published his first novel —The Desolate Garden. Within three months of publication, that book was under a paid option to become a $30 million film. The option lasted for six years until distribution became an insurmountable problem for the production company. All ten of his novels are now published by Next Chapter Publishing Company which has added an edition titled The Heirs And Descendants Collection, which holds all four books of that series, alongside an edition titled The Lies And Consequences Collection which contains all four volumes of that series. He is the recipient of rave reviews from a prestigious Manhattan publication and described as—the new Graham Green—by a highly placed executive of Waterstones Books, for whom he did a countrywide tour of book signing events. He has also appeared on 'live' television in the UK publicising his first novel. He likes to write quotes and it's on Goodreads where you can find them--- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/list/72612151 An example of these quotes opens his novel--Once I Was A Soldier:--There is no morality to be found in evil. But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules of morality. Less

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