Dream Time Poetry

A poem motivated by grief.

It’s like that settled state of peace
becomes restless in its sleep
and I awake to heartache
and a mind is disarray.
Of course it’s just the knowing
no grace allowed for spirit love
to manifest from dreams to real
and keep a woman/man in love
till death begets again
the making of another life.
And it’s like the tears are too confined
within where they [...]

Seconds, minutes, hours,
and time merges them together
until day gives way to night
and I walk the shadowed halls
of each weakness I possess.

Night comforts and caresses
like a lover’s gentle hands
and I stir within a dream
frightened there to see
love walks a lonely path
beyond my mental feel.

Wakeful now, aware,
but dreaming still I see
the coming in of [...]