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This is a powerful song that is wonderfully vague. It is the tapestry of life, good or bad. It tells us to open our eyes to what’s out there but don’t let what’s out there hold you back. Life is too short to make hesitations. There are so many opportunities out there for us to take and it's important that we live our life to the fullest within the short amount of time that we are given.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCy7lLQwToI

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Within the poem, the speaker recalls a man who gives a eulogy at a funeral. The man mentions the dates that the person was born and died, and he then says that those dates are not as important as the dash in between them.According the poem, the dash "represents all the time that they spent alive on Earth" and that "what matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash." The dash is a metaphor for the life that humans live. The poem asks the reader to think about his life and whether or not he is living it the way that he wants.

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I read of a man who stood to speak
At the funeral of a friend

He referred to the dates on her tombstone
From the beginning to the end

He noted that first came her date of her birth
And spoke the following date with tears,

But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years

For that dash represents all the time
That she spent alive on earth.

And now only those who loved her
Know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not how much we own;
The cars, the house, the cash,

What matters is how we live and love
And how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard.
Are there things you'd like to change?

For you never know how much time is left,
That can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
To consider what's true and real

And always try to understand
The way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger,
And show appreciation more

And love the people in our lives
Like we've never loved before

If we treat each other with respect,
And more often wear a smile

Remembering that this special dash
Might only last a little while.

So, when our eulogy is being read
With your life's actions to rehash

Would you be proud of the things they say
About how you spent your dash?

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This is a touching, poignant song about the fleeting nature of life. We are always running in our busy lives so that we never get to enjoy the beautiful moments of life, like the calm silence before sunrise, or sharing our dreams with our loved ones when the moon is rising at night, or contemplating on where the angels come from. In the end, all of our lives will come to end without a choice. Everything that is happening right now will not matter in the end of it all. Life is like a dream.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSKOMsObq84

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream,” published in 1849, explores the difference between the real and the imaginary. Within the poem, he illustrates a human life slipping away, trickling like “sand,” and implies that our existence is insubstantial, just an abstraction of the mind. The poem focusses on the passing of time as perceived through reflection at or near the end of one’s life. In the fullness of time, the lives we live appear as dreams, fleeting and futile.

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"A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe 

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"A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe 

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Take this kiss upon the bowl
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

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It was the most powerful song of the 20th century. It started out in church pews and picket lines, inspired one of the greatest freedom movements in U.S. history, and went on to topple governments and bring about reform all over the world. Word for word, the short, simple lyrics of "We Shall Overcome" might be some of the most influential words in the English language.
"We Shall Overcome" has it roots in African American hymns from the early 20th century, and was first used as a protest song in 1945, when striking tobacco workers in Charleston, S.C., sang it on their picket line. By the 1950s, the song had been discovered by the young activists of the African American civil rights movement, and it quickly became the movement’s unofficial anthem.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhnPVP23rzo

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In this poem, the speakeris proclaiming to the world that he, too, is an American.  He, too, sings America.  He refers to himself as “the darker brother,” and even though he is not allowed to be seen as an equal among men in his country,—he is continually hidden away by the white majority– he is still an important and integral part of America.  Even though the poem is dealing with a very painful subject—racism—the poet and speaker are still hopeful that one day soon, the powers that be will be ashamed of the way they have treated African Americans, and they will see that they are also a part of the country.

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"I, too, sing America." by Langston Hughes

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"I, too, sing America." by Langston Hughes

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I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes.
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides.
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed-

I, too, am America.