Thursday, April 12, 2012

Sonnet Satire: The Drunk Poet Pukes


Dreams To Come


When I awoke from my dream,
tears trickled down my cheeks,
and I realized things weren’t as they seem.
Wrapped tightly, twisted up in my sheets,
I closed my eyes and gave my dream a wring,
squeezing out the images that still floated above the pleats,
pulling them from the air to which they clinged,
into the world in which all life seats,
harnessing them in firm walls, they ceased to sing,
reality organizes emotion into fleets.

I always thought that our love was where life peaked,
but I was only a dreaming, like Coleridge and Keats.
There, on my pillow, I gained control
when I realized our love was just protocol.


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