sees the improbable and dreams

dreams of what could be

as viewed by the minds eye

a broad view of the beautiful,

the real, and the cruel

hearing all of life ending

in great yells and soft whimpers

the end happens to us all

turning to the dust of the ages

while here, alive, the romantic

sees and lives the beauty

endures the frustrations and

in angered by cruel events

but onward with the mind, the heart

of a poet and the eye of an artist

seeing opportunity with every

corner turned, a new dawn, awakened

the heart of the romantic is a

sailor on life's seas

viewing the calm and the storm

with optimism, reality, and grace