Dream sleep

Dream sleep

Comes to visit

All too easily

When unexpected

Gentle visions

Overlay the afternoon

Even when walking

The story reread

In my head

Is a different one

To the book

I rewrite every day.

A series of photographs

Play

On the outside

Rearranged

They revolve into a

Repetitious

Spinning wheel

A camera obscura

The world as

Seen through a zoetrope

The flicker

Of a carousel

Caught

In deep reflection

Before an empty mirror

A barfly

Drink me dry.

It would take

Only but a minute

To transform

This daydream

Into a nightmare

Delusions are real

If you believe.

In isolation

It is only the

Pain of discovery

That barters illusion

As the price

Paid for truth.

Sleep

Is a friend

But only for the minute

It takes to remember that

Nothing happens

To sleep walkers

Until they wake.