Dream Within a Dream Redone
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hope improved it, seems had to rest so there could be dreams within dreams,
though brain cancer does not allow for the singing of poetry
no miraculous whispers of life no light rises shinning from the sky
yet I have read Poe’s poetry and i agree it seems
that indeed life and death are like a “ dream within a dream”
his words written in pen and ink of raven’s black
while sitting late at night as cancer of the brain attacks
dark and silent then bringing images and sparks
talks with oncologists mention a few months or few years
nothing can be sure with a cancer-kill radiation chemo cure
though early or later a vision will come with a deepening sleep
a headache’s cry may come with dark whimsical images seen
mythical life and death again are indeed “a dream within a dream”
possibly dark nightmarish doom might be amidst empty night
or there might be light beams rising on the mountains of the moon
doctors with years experience with radiation, chemo, and dyes
have me lie in a lab with the tap tap tapping in a coffin like MRI
the talks with doctors and nurses wrap me in warm sheets
help me sleep while those deformed cells die -- healthy living ones as well,
all sending signals electric currents from a faraway crystalline beach
like a Poe’s poem all that surrounds me is like “a dream within a
dream’ unknown unseen and out of reach.
Copyright © Linda Milgate | Year Posted 2018
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