WAKENINGS

　　I am ready to go with them& to death

　　Dreams bedazzled my senses,

　　waged war on my taut knowing

　　and seduced my adult fears.

　　What do you do when you dreamUnauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.

　　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.