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The Tragic Death of the Dream

August 27, 2013
By Neslonnah BRONZE, Palos Verdes Peninsula, California
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A perfect plum and titian night
Fades into the dewy light.
Two windows open, confuse control
Wake the lusting human soul.

Drowsy fingers grasp at wisps,
Chasing rogue oneiric mist
And whimsy lost to jealous day
Departs a world of blurred delay.

A lucid glass twinkles gold,
Flaunting what the mind withholds;
Yet, darkness fogs the idyll mind.
The moon is gone, my dream has died.

© Garrett M., Port Angeles, WA

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Inspired by the sadness of forgetting your dream when you first wake up.
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