Trust me said the dream,
Let me take you by the hand,
I want to give you answers,
To what you don’t understand.
Skip across the sands of time,
There’s plenty there to see.
Just picture in your mind,
And leave the rest up to me.
Floating through the sad times,
If a lonely tear escapes.
I can help you bear it all,
Help comfort past heartaches.
I want to make it better,
If you’ll put your trust in me.
Anything your heart desires,
Why don’t you come with me?
I will hold you in my arms,
Shelter you from pain.
I’ll undo your hardship,
Life will never be the same.
So come from slumber join me,
Journey through the night.
To a different time and place,
With happiness insight.
I offer you no harm,
I just want to make things right.
A guardian angel sent to help,
On your lost and lonely night.
©.L.Kelly
...inspiration from 'Preludes' by T.S. Eliot
Loose leaves rustle.
The grey light of evening dips and sways.
Evening birds bleat
their lonely tattoo.
Gone are the jays and the wagtails,
the burnt-out end of smoky days.
No fancy gadgets,
just a jar of pencils newly cut.
The clatter
of a typewriter
haunts the silence, like a 'pecker
jonesin' for nutrition, finding squat.
Curtains flutter.
She's shabbily dressed and thin.
A lonely candle sputters
and she struggles.
Notes and erasers jostle for space,
still no inspiration will brighten her face.
Coffee and cigarettes,
vodka and tears, and none will curb her fears
of ever grasping
white from black,
light from limbo, the curse of the damned,
the neverland that has her clammed.
One word, one spark
of enlightenment nudges her back.
Exhilaration wracks her,
electricity whacks her
like a sharp evening breeze,
and her fingers are dancing all over the keys!
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