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This Is How the Dream Goes

This is How the Dream Goes
David J Walker 

This is how the dream goes when I awaken to 
A cheesecloth cover/filter of borrowed light
Colors melding into a blur of fading memory
A second sight permissioned well into the night only
To be blown out like a lone candle growing shorter 
Before the dawn 

This is how the dream seems if a scene returns 
During unavoidable daydreams in 
a split-seconds faint memory 
Your eyes are translucent and your hair is brushed 
With fiery flames with no last names with which 
To be identified

This is how the dream retains its citizenship
Voting to be remembered on special occasions 
For which you must appropriately dress and 
Properly speak but only when spoken to 
And must accept a seat at the children’s table 
Listening to adults laughing in another room
Reserved for the dead

This is how a dream yearns for
Your sympathy and understanding before
The dawn returns sadly awaiting 
Another night