Be home

when opportunity

knocks

Your door

 left open

— lights aglow

 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)

Trapped in a

ditch

on the highway

of life

Comings

were going

all motion

had gone

 

Till fates

saving whisper

in the ear

of tomorrow

Granted me

traction

in search

— of the dawn

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)

You can’t destroy

a word

like vanquishing

an enemy

 

Its meaning cast

immortal

beyond

— victory or death

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)

 

We could’ve

we would’ve

we should’ve

— but we didn’t

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)

Oh

to leave all chains

on top

 of the mountain

 

Oh

to leave a world

setting

— everything free

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

I don’t know

what it is

 

I know

what it isn’t

 

Revealed

in the offing

 

An image

— takes form

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

He climbed atop

an oak on fire

Its sap transformed  

by flames concealed 

 

Each branch he passed

a year he traded

For what’s unseen

— by heat congealed

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

 

True innovation

emerges

from disruption

The sparks

of collision

— lighting the way

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

A prisoner

of sentience

escape

self-denial

 

Incarcerated

deep inside

with voices

dark and vile

 

A prisoner

of every thought

his mind

a burning feast

 

The moments that

protected him

before

protect him least

 

A prisoner

of déjà vu

where now

and then conspire

 

His name convicted

to the flames

all dreams

— within the fire

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

Wolverine shadows

 in the Michigan mist

Blood trail encampment

 on yesterday’s tryst

 

Teeth at the ready

 fortune can’t hide

Death for a tribute

— when vengeance abides

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)