Dreams

The American poet Langston Hughes wrote the short poem Dreams. Here it is:

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

The poem consists of two stanzas with four verses each. In each stanza the second and fourth verses rhyme. The poem uses powerful metaphors to highlight the importance of dreams. Without dreams, it says life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly and a barren field frozen with snow.