It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream, and not a dream dreamed by me but by someone else still to be born.

About This Quote

The speaker in this poem is talking about the fact that they are alive, but everything around them seems like a dream. A dream that they are not dreaming. The speaker is not dead, but it is as if they are dead. They cannot go places they really want to go because it makes them feel alive.

Source: Dreamtigers

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