WAKENINGS

I am ready to go with them… to death

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Dreams bedazzled my senses,

waged war on my taut knowing

and seduced my adult fears.

What do you do when you dream

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of dying? A death that is brilliant as

solar eclipses, infant eyes, and honey?

I dreamed of liquid sun, sparks of

sizzling color and radiant beam

of childhood, holding hands with

wrinkled knowledge and faded time.

Do I have to go? Is there a choice?

Will the solar falls and star bulbs

blind my building resolve?

I will die today, closing

one dream to crack open and bookmark

another.