4 a.m.: The poetry of pain

Dreaming in Place


Old spirits come calling
Regret fuels despair
Under cover of darkness
I meet fear with fear

The days that went wrong
The lovers who strayed
The life half unlived
The dreams all betrayed

Sun rises from shadow
My eyes slowly trace
The life that I hoped for
But I'm dreaming in place

In a prison of quiet
Time roars like a tide
I scramble for refuge
With nowhere to hide

If angels surround me
They stand strangely still
Unsure of their footing
Too long on this hill

Sun rises from shadow
My eyes slowly trace
The life that I hoped for
But I'm dreaming in place

I reach in the dark
For my creaturely friend
Sweet old companion
In a night without end

No faith for the faithless
No birds in the trees
No songs in the silence
Nobody who sees

Sun rises from shadow
My eyes slowly trace
The life that I hoped for
Still dreaming in place


L.A.E.