The Next Dream's Reality


"The Next Dream’s Reality" 

in dreams
we find our way 
that long night 
into light of day
what remains 
in the memory
washes in and out 
like surf on soft sand
the cool drag under our feet
pulls us out then back in again
we are floating ghosts of ourselves
like watercolours in lulling tide
loose fabric washing out the bleed
of sensibilities and the intrigue
of lost self saving moments 
fading in and out 
the metronome heartbeat
measures us in time 
we are the slow opium
kissing other phantoms
we pull them into us for a while
like we are magnets, or some strange 
symphony music of what was,
what could be, but never now
heard through that hypnotic 
whispering fibonacci shell
delicately rhymed we 
move swiftly poetic accolades
roulette cards laid on velvet 
tableaus of mystery
the swift passing ignomity
spells cast like nets for falling 
pearls of another life 
aether mist the smell of musk
incense from liturgic thuribles
in other forgotten strange worlds
wafer thin, the sense 
of taste and smell
never entirely complete
puzzle pieces fit eventually
on waking during the 
most irrelevant moments
in our waking daze
and we find a way out 
back into the next dream’s
reality where the sun rises
and the moon sleeps
the soul speaks to us
softly in riddles 
and we, 

we
are the mystery 
of what it keeps


(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Forbes Avatar
October 24, 2022 at 6:30 PM
This is beautiful... soft, sensuous. Like a whispered delicious lullaby.
Labyrinth Avatar
October 24, 2022 at 7:46 PM
Thank you Becky. xx
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October 24, 2022 at 3:32 PM
Primary Video/Music. "One Heart" / This Feeling, Dreamscape.
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October 24, 2022 at 3:32 PM
https://youtu.be/79OzE6aDLrA
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