Island In A Dream Poem by Jay Bradley

Island In A Dream



We're sailing down a stream where our islands become lost
We float downward and onwards on this stream
Chasing after our islands as though in a dream
And in these islands are harbors housed
And in this dream we are without a home, so alone
Drifting down the stream like your common debree
Which has been tossed off from the edge of the extreme
Listing in a dream, from the void, the moor of despair
Because despair is like this dream, so hopeless yet complete
And we're floating, sifting, soaking, growing soggier and soggier
When we reach our islands-and I doubt that will ever occur
We won't be able to move; our bodies will collapse on the shore
Crabs and seaweed will live and grow and die upon our flesh
Making nests, planting seeds, floating through as though a dream
Pinching our sides until we ache, until we cough up floods and hurricanes
Until we clench our souls of the abyss, the dirty damned abyss of dreams
And we'll SCREAM into the unforgiving night to unlocked ears not there
But that's all right and sunshine daisies since this is but a dream
The images all around cannot hurt because they are not so
Just a mirrage, the mirror of our mind, the shadow of our eye
The soul of lost and hungry children, melting somewhere
Melting and dying away, wasted by the dream, the sand of their apple
The core rotted out to midnight, the chimes chord that's cold grey and silent
In the dream, on the island, where our harbors are housed with safety lost
What a cost, what an extreme, and we find ourselves here, on the island
Flowing with the stream, as though in a dream, as crazy as it may seem
But we find ourselves; yes, dear heart and troubled spirit, we find what we seek
We awaken and look and see and listen and hear, then we close our eyes
But we shall never awaken again, never again, never again, never

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Jay Bradley

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