Dreams, ... and then?

"All her dreams have come true"
Yet in the face of this praise
her gaze lowers, she stays quiet,
for she knows that it is not so.

Dreams she had as a younger woman
have unquestionably been fulfilled
but now it seems there is so far to go
it is foolish to believe in her success.

Once she yearned to move to distant land,
fly the skies, marry well, mother children
with handsome professional to protect
and help her raise a family in love.

All this came to pass
as dreams sometimes do;
and yet there was no end -
no completion - no ever after.

More worries came than happiness:
concerns for her daughters, their lives,
their success, their happiness;
got in the way of her fairy tale ending.

Ah! Now is the moment of recognition,
if she'd had only those dreams, then
fulfilled them, what would she have
but the emptiness of a finished life?

Her flights to the sky reveal
new horizons, new journeys -
the fortune of never ending quests
and so life ever begins anew.