byEdgar Gabriel Silex
- it's the place where dreams are kept
and your life is a book
you've been looking for
and you find it on a dusty shelf
but never seem to have enough time
to finish reading the story
you know well what's written there
it's an old tale you overheard
recited in another dream
as if it wasn't you who it spoke of
though you recognized the details
of your life as you turn the pages
you keep seeing the face of someone
you've often passed by in other dreams
a face whose instant recognition dreamports you
back to a childhood memory
where you are ashamed
because you lost something important
an object a message some thing
meant never to be forgotten
and you have been hunting for it
ever since in book-filled rooms
where bindings lack titles or names
where your story remains entombed
and where tonight you may find it again
only to lose it as you awake
From Acts of Love by Edgar Gabriel Silex,
Curbstone Press. © 2004 Edgar Gabriel Silex
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