National Adult Literacy Database

July 24, 2000

This poem was written by Eric Enns, from Whitehorse, Yukon. Eric works at Helping Hands Recycling Centre in Whitehorse. His hobbies include painting, reading, jokes, and writing letters to family and friends. He will be 65 in August, 2000.

My Dream

by Lion Eric Enns

I went to sleep and had a bad dream
I asked the Lord to help me to take it away
and God gave me a new start
and a new dream and a new day.

[This story was taken with permission, from Learner to Learner, published by Yukon Learn, June 1999 edition.]