I dreamt I walked in Adam’s paradise,
beyond the Viper’s grasp, and could not sin,
that emeralds graced the trees, while every vice
marring me now was healed from within;
white satin clouds laced the jade-green sky
as jaguars licked my face in velvet rhyme,
removing every wheal: thus cured of time,
careless in the flowers I did lie,
and knowledge grew, as angels spoke to me,
their wings great molten thoughts, that mountains moved;
sweet fruits, fair music mine – ageless and free
I roamed with nothing lacking but my Love.
Then bitterly I wept, and begged anew
For perfect joys: I woke – and there was you.
JVB Written upon waking in my secret lover’s arms
New Orleans, late June, 1963
Young, strolling and taking in a view,
Of a sepia toned land where wheat is whispering my name,
While walking I look off in the distance where hills of gold continue for miles on,
The sky is red and the clouds are grey in spiral motions,
Feeling a rumble in the ground, and I break into a run,
Heavy breathing and a heart pounding out of my chest,
I turn my head to find I’m being chased by a big black dog,
About seven hands high with fire eyes and smoke pouring off of its coat,
Keep running with wheat growing to hit my face,
Stop I scream and plant my feet like roots into the ground, facing the demon,
It sits down, I ask it who he is and why he’s chasing me,
He says in a low voice, you were lonely and I thought you wanted to play,
My name is Daru, and I am a friend here to warn you of troubles ahead,
You will suffer love, loss and hardship but you shall run anymore,
Come on my back and I will take you to the shore, you will escape to the lands of yor,
Soothing his voice, I get on the demons back and feel its soothing warmth,
We ride for days till we get to shore, made of steal and powered by the wheal,
We jump on and off away from the known to lands untold.
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