Dreaming as I walk

Dreaming as I walk

Walking as I dream

Sometimes it is not easy

To differentiate

Too many thoughts converge

For dreaming

Until Dolphins jump

Right out of the sea

In front of me

And I’m sure they are grinning.

They chatter non-stop

Twenty to the dozen

As my old mother would say.

She would know

Never short of a word or two

Even as the darkness came,

Her eyes, blue as the sky

Were just for decoration.

She proposed to my dad

And waited until she was near death

To mention it.

Remembrance

Grounds me in reality

Perhaps I am in a dream

Although not dreaming.

So many painful things

Makes waking a nightmare

The walking, a delusion

When my head is in the clouds

And Dophins make more sense

Than the daily news.

War is always a moneymaker

For somebody

All the President's men

Couldn’t put Trumpty together again.

But then I am dreaming

As nakedness is never part

Of a waking person’s daily walk

Not for all the tea

In my china cup

Would I become a comic strip

It is just as well

I can smell the coffee from here.