Cementing a Dream

I remember a long time ago
Hearing about Charles Goddard,
The famous rocket scientist,
How when he was very young,
He wrote a list down of all
The things he wanted
To accomplish in his life.
Some of them were fairly simple
Like milking a rattle snake,
But others were quite imaginative,
And impossible to achieve
At the time he wrote them down,
Ideas like traveling in space,
Or going to the moon.
The list was found later in his life
And he realized that he
Had accomplished almost everything
He had listed and then some.
He had traveled to nearly every
Country in the world.
He had sailed the seven seas.
He had been responsible
For getting men into outer space
And to the moon.
He had become one of the most
Accomplished men in history.
All of that was largely the result of
His having cemented his dreams
By writing them down,
And then going out and living them.