Rummaged

A broad daylight spilled over my sleepwalking mind.
I popped out of a dream knowing something.

An alien from an alternative Ohio
had cat-burgled my consciousness.

I had been probed, not in a physical way,
just ransacked and rummaged

as if a strange mind considered me to be 
a yard sale or curiosity shop.

I felt turned over, my stored stuff assessed 
then replaced higgledy-piggledy.

The dust in my attic is still flying.
My junk is all tipped over.

I am not sure what the alien was looking for,
not sure what it made off with.

Something as yet unused has been pilfered,
and I will miss it when it’s time to find it.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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