Once Upon a Time In a Dream

once upon a time in a dream where angels sang and men with wings and horns fought battles and mountains followed you in anger I saw your face and in a maze of solitude fright invades the soul and voices speak but never heard I find myself among the stars and vivid is your face that lingers on and in this time of flight suspended in perpetual animation sensations of ecstasy flirts with me panic captures me I sink in the clutches of a darkened sky where this mirage is a reflection of my life as this oppression consumes me I arrive at a place where time is no more and tranquility it’s essence I touch you and you are real and at the acme of this excitement I wake as the revelation of my manhood escape the confines of a frightful rapture and your face lingers on escape the confines of a frightful rapture and your face lingers on Earl S. Jackson Mar 1988, Copyright © 2006 Earl S. Jackson, all rights reserved.