"In Dreams" - Written 28/04/08

I watched myself toss and turn.
I watched myself roll in discomfort.
I watched the sheets arrange and rearrange,
as I slept as a man disgruntled.
I descended into the shadows of the mind...

Staring into her eyes, I noticed,
they flared a fiery yellow colour.
We watched each other, sitting by one another,
but as I leaned towards her lips,
even in my dreams, she drew away from me.

She fades away, into distance.
I see myself back in the quilt again.
I turn over, I seek to relive this experience,
or one of greater happiness,
to live as sane man in a land of the insane...

I find myself travelling briefly,
with many companions, once known.
We stop at a store and are searching for something,
each man searching alone,
and I cannot find here a single product I desire.

We resume our travelling,
my companions are each satisfied,
but our transport breaks down, we cannot move on,
and I see myself now again,
beating my pillow, and sleeping, again, descending...

We sit at a table, him and I,
across from each other, shirts and ties,
when he looks straight at me, and laughs, long and loud.
I watch as he turns transparent,
in his laughter I can see him so quickly fading away.

I reach for him, but he is gone.
Through him I see a cold wind outside,
but I am now seeing through just a windowpane,
no person by my side, and
I awake, listening to the pattering sound of the rain.