Writers Block Challenge # 23

Stuff and Nonsense by Rani Kaye

(formerly known as “Mystic Poet”):

 

This should be a cozy haunt:

Up and down the stairs I jaunt.

If I try to walk away,

I’ll find I’m asleep, and stay.

If I try to reach "awake"

I’ll discover my mistake:

(Flying through here in the rain ...

Lightening out my window pane ...

Pelting teardrops o’er my head;

I am really still in bed!)

Have you ever dreamed you waked?

Took a walk, and couldn’t shake

Some fool notion you’re not there

But asleep in bed, somewhere?

If you do, just say a prayer!

And your spirit will recover;

Leaving dreamland, find the other

Place that is your true abode

(While the shades of death withhold

Your existence from the sky ...

In determined steps to try

To remember on which day

You assumed a shell of clay,

And were bound by time and space

To exist in but one place

Until time and space shall end --

Then you get to fly again!)

 

-- Poem by Rani Kaye, all rights reserved