Dead, Dying and the Dreamer
Desire offered me a Joyful Blindness
new each time from the Caldron
such that I succumbed each time
moved thereby
to cheat Death himself
accepting thereby the double
conundrum
that a too intense Desire
can kill the Dream it inspires
and sometimes too, kill the Dreamer
condemning him or her perhaps
to surfing the tides of blowback
the Damocles Pillars of Blame and Time,
seeing Fate toss dice
with his life
in the back room
where secrets hold
sway
and lie down
with Soothing Regrets
who utters
"It's not your fault."
Where pressures are
presented;
where I get to
wed my Desire
where I get to
go away
into Indeterminate Time
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poem by Lonnie Hicks
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