Changes
The irate bull
That occasionally
Shows up in a scene
Of a twisted dream,
Doesn’t charge towards me
Anymore.
An old, familiar house
That had granted no entries,
Is tonight welcoming me
With wide open door.
All the forgotten memories
Begin surfacing up
Without disturbances.
I no longer
Hear the dreadful
Sirens of an unexpectedly
Nearing ambulance.
I see filmy landscapes,
Immaculate cityscapes,
And witness some
Mind-boggling
Escapes.
I’m sometimes engagingly
Watching a melodrama
Unravel between the
Red-velvet drapes;
Applauding at the end
Of every take.
Nothing intervenes
My night sleep;
Eyes don’t
Open in between,
And the heart
Doesn’t scream,
I’m sure
Something enigmatic
Has gathered access
To my dreams.
Manish Singh Rajput
Wed 17th Apr 2024 16:44
Graham,
Thanks a ton for sharing this, it's magnificent!
"hopes are rags in paper bags," what a line!
And I loved the ending lines too,
"if you would only measure me
dear saint, angel, lover, please
a fool before a poet, you say
is so much easier to please"
The lines that hit me hard were,
"I'm begging at your window
mistakes strewn around my feet
those I couldn't bear to face
lie littered in the street"
Thanks again,
This is a masterpiece and it surely helps😊