Tuesday, February 03, 2009

I dreamt of you last night

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I dreamt of you last night.

dark dreams that break the dark with a truer sense of silence.
avatars and metaphors of dangers and strangers.
violence to my good wishes for you.
a sense of sorrow borrowed from
the histories and mysteries we’ve shared.

I dreamt of you last night.

and every muscle and sinew braced to pull you from harm,
only to be faced with the burnt ends of a rope
I would have cast you, blasted from my hands
by the demands of shadow figures
in your head, in your bed.

I dreamt of you last night.

yet no cold catalepsy returned to make mock by mettle,
only a hollow sorrow the one promise
I’d ever gotten from you was orphaned
by the side of the road like a castoff kitten,
left to die, as was I.

I dreamt of you last night.


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.

I stumbled upon this on another site, one of the thousands of works I've written then forgotten.

2 observations:

Anonymous said...

i love this. how could you forget it? it's wonderful.

8:43 PM
William F. DeVault said...

Well, Milady, I have about 16,000-18,000 poems in my catalogue (I quit counting, I leave that to my editors), which comes to about one a day for fifty years. And I have not been writing that long.

I always hate it when I stumble across a piece I wrote months or years ago that is good and has not received a fair airing.

Thanks for the kind words.

6:19 PM

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