Dream #6 Poem by Kyle Schlicher

I drink from the same dream
each
night
listening
to my pulse
beating wildly
against
reality
that does not exist
inside this vacuum
I have been swimming
around in circles
all the while
trying to stay afloat
as the descent of illusions
slowly turn into allusions
reacting to the cause and effect
of my subconscious
surrendering of everything
I hold to be
three dimensional
in a one dimensional world
inhabited
by superstitious beings
unwilling
to take a walk out of the darkness
and
into the sunlight.

(5-11-1972)