Not in the Dream, Maybe, but Now

There’s only nothing hard but everything,
You wrote once in a letter in a dream.

Later, in the same dream, you told a friend
You were embarrassed to have written that,

Since, whenever you wanted to complain
About something particularly hard,

Someone would throw your comment back at you,
There’s only nothing hard but everything.

Smiling dreamily, your dream friend replied,
We only regret something we’ve written

When we know we’ve exposed our true feelings.
Put in writing, they’re harder to take back.

You protested, It’s something more than that,
Like, once I wrote it, I made it a fact.