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selected poems from Dreamscape Voyage
Creeping Shadow
I watch the people walk along
Alone
Alone
Kindred, more with the dark that follows.
Hiding
Gone
from a vibrant world that feels so wrong
Private
Lonesome
Longing to consume what I can’t swallow.
To the shadow, back I slither,
reaching for that which burns my skin.
Here inside the dark I wither
with my own folly once again.
Where oblivion calls me back to rest
in broken sleep, my dreams distress.
In shackles of my own design,
I lose the key and stay confined.
Somewhere far beyond this cage,
the darkness holding me shall fade.
Distant dreams
Finally free
Someday soon
no more gloom?
A Distant Figure
Out of body and given wholly to mind
a nexus for life and time to bind—
again, that distant figure walks away.
So many times,
yes, so many I’ve given chase
only so that it may increase its haste.
But now my being here I lay.
I stay until it finally fades—
gone,
and I’ll pursue no more.
Was I ever meant to catch it?
Who knows?
Yet still that figure comes and goes.
Neither looking nor speaking,
it invites me not,
and I’ve cast it entirely out of thought.
Or so I say.
Tediously marching in endless space,
it once seemed to have a familiar face,
though the eyes were always blank and empty.
Why then do I still wonder
where it may lead me if I follow,
that silent figure with eyes so hollow?
