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Dreams Away

Oh bold flowered beauty, 
Persistent truth of unfilled dreams
The manufactured crop of one imagination, 
Drink well cousin, then spray about
As though all water were your own.
Snicker and sneer knowing ruse 
But still accuse each other of
Saving eye for eye as loss for all. 
And when a day we borrow is born
Every word that has been spoken 
Will be broken like bread between us. 
Shall we abandon you,
Make a fuss about a ladle or wagon  
An empty jug or flutter, while stone 
Looks on stone and sees the butterfly return. 
Color, light, night, then borrowed day.
So many shiny coins for dreams away,
“…sunshine, a warm beam balancing comes…”
Over and over until a robin’s ear 
Will bleed; we forgive ourselves. 
Who hear the deer and see the sky, 
And while inside gaze among the same 
Branches of a single tree we would cut 
Our limbs to see, our gifts all given. 
Not to be awakened but to hold until
We give them all away, All dreams away.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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