My Little Dreams

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

For time's deft fingers scroll my brow With fell relentless art — I'm folding up my little dreams Tonight, within my heart.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Mood:: Sad
Topics:: dream, heart, time, loss

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In Georgia Douglas Johnson’s short lyric, the speaker quietly performs a private ritual: she folds up her “little dreams” inside her heart, as if putting away clothes or letters she can no longer bear to look at.

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