And I Awoke
Sleeping
Through the endless nightmare of my uncomfort
I carried the universe in my arms
Wandering through a wooden house
Clapboard holes of old age
pitting the floors
I stepped through
unhinged doors
and cradled my container of stars,
diamond eyed babies
sweet as
lavender and heather
But then occurred a
metamorphosis
Instead of bliss
barren Loneliness
My weightless soul
falling
into an empty black-hole
between walls
a stained chalky unspace
Extending beyond the existent night
Fragmented tears tore from my eyes
searing sorrow
Drowning
in my own lifeless ocean
On the last breath of indecision
I sternly struggled
Grasping at splintered words
I escaped
the wretched rooms of night
Into the cartoon-like day
Hills were pathetically pink
I could not think
The cardboard world reflected
Erratic images in cracked mirrors
Clowns dancing in concentric circles
with smiling blue lips
and wide
astonished eyes
I stumbled toward the horizon
where something
SOMETHING must be real-
and
A man caught me up
in his gentle arms
I gasped
I trembled
as he twined and twirled me
In his eyes of love
there was no harm
He asked if I was hungry
I realized I was
He hugged me to his heart
and I awoke