The Dream

I had a dream upon night of last that dreamt the dream of dreams long past

I said to the dream, "what world be this that so contains me?" said the dream to me "be this a dream or a dream this be?"

I said to the dream "what's a night without stars?" the dream smiled its dreamy smile and crept the words "We go whence lost from here to Mars."

I dreamt a dream of dreamy mist, I dreamt a dream of a time I'd missed.

"Be this the dream?" dreamed the dream to my brain "Be this merely what thy mind can contain?"

A beating heart a beating drum a wizened doe a deafening thrum.

"What dream is this?" I freely spoke, "Be this a dream, or did I croak?"

Said the dreamer "be still."

Terrified, I said "I will."

Said the dreamer "This time is no time, this place is no place. This dream is not yours, you are here by my grace."

"What heavens be should come to this?"

"What worlds apart did I yet miss?"

I dreamt a dream of dreaming still. I dreamt a dream that would not fill.

Mine is a mind beyond mortal men, yet never have I asked "what then?"

"What realms be there in thought and dream?" "What worlds within worlds must I be between?"

I asked the dreamer, "Dream I still?"

Spake the dreamer, "In time, you will."

"Your world a dream as much as mine, you've dreamt a dream across the line."

"When wake you standing in the hall, lights flicking off, on, one and all."

"When through the night thy patterns be, when you no longer canst remember me."

"This dream a dream will surely be. A dream from whence thy doth be free."

"The moon, the moon. The moon, your moon."

"I leave you moon to be my rune."

"The moon, your moon. Oh golden moon from setting dusk, from rising dawn to withering husk."

"Thy dream will be dream until thee see, the moon, your moon, a dream still be."

I scream I cry I stutter I moan - I feel feel around for flesh or bone.

The dreamer dreams my dream to dust.

"I'm sorry child, I must. I must."

"Time enough for time or fear, when your kind be ready you'll be back here."

"Mine a path too grim to speak, my world a river, yours merely a creek."

"Listen close child, and listen well:"

"My people dreamed of once but then we fell."

"I dream a dream I dream alone"

"I dream a dream I dream to atone."

"I dream a dream with dream to you."

"I dream a dream and dream anew."

"Your dream a dream beyond the veil, taken wing and wing and sail."

"You've risen high, for that be proud, you've risen so high to pierce the shroud."

"My dream a dream beyond your own, yond scale or seed or sinew or bone."

"Your dream a dream so softly fades, seek not this place in your escapades."

"You dream a dream you know not where, your thoughts - your mind - a candle flare."

"You dream a bonfire all your own, burning, searing, sky and stone."

I start to fall - I start to fade - falling, failing, so dismayed.

The dreamer dreams her dream to me, she dreams her dream and so I see.

My dream no dream my life no life

My world so broken built on strife

My world a dream my dream a world, my mind so lost my thoughts unfurled.

There be no world, no home to see.

I have one home - That home is me.

My world no world - My place no place.

My time no time - My space no space.

I never was I'll always be

wither thither nor not my memory.

This world no world - This place no place.

This time no time - This space no space.

My world still spins - Yet its axel rocks.

Not yet free am I - But I opened the locks.