DREAM

In my lover’s arms so complete

She and I dancing, spinning

Grinning.

No words. 

Charcoal bubbles of smoke 

Float by gracefully

Filled to the fullest measure

With the joyful tease of pleasure

Nothing is better than this feeling we share

Pillowing through the midnight air

Surely a love such as this can only come

In dreams and fantasies 

Untainted by reality

With its dark stains of discord and calamity

Constant reminders that this is not home

But how long to suffer in a land that’s so stale

While true love awaits on that side of the veil?

If only to slip into sweet lengthy slumber

And dream such a dream continuously

So that after a while I, unencumbered, 

Envision this, my reality.

Yet now to be ripped from the arms of my lover

And thrown to the wolves without any cover

And naked thus standing, defenses not mounted

I’ll only survive on the blessings I’ve counted

Disdaining the curse that’s gripping my senses

Without any terse or shallow pretenses.