Reply Email From Subby Conscience

REM(Gail's note: This is the sequel to the Email to Subby Conscience poem.) To: gadeb@zzzsmail.com From: Subby Conscience Re: Communication between You and Me Date: February 14, 2012 While I sneak and scheme in your chaotic REM I am doing nothing more than being a friend. Those dream-swirls and ‘mare-tugs purge your mind’s eye so that your psyche can grow and won’t suddenly die. While you’re gripping tightly to antique feelings that won’t budge I’m prying them out; giving them a strong nudge. And as you grudgingly work through a feeling or two I am working my hardest to make you feel what is true. I even may help you work out a solution or two Because during the day you are too busy to. Who else provides perks that allow you to be both young and old in the very same dream? So tell me dear, and answer me this. What would you do if many nights I missed And was sneaking around in another soul’s REM What would your sanity be like then? Without my help to work out thoughts That keep you quite sane… Would you then turn around And try to cast blame? Saying Subby’s absence caused you to act like a drip? Saying Subby’s absence caused your tongue to Freudian slip? Instead your mind can skyrocket and cozily soar After I recede in the A.M. and work behind your mind’s door. Published in PS: It's Still Poetry Volume II