Sunday, March 8, 2009

Stay: Where or Starlight

I've heard this tune before, in another time and place
and yet tonight I hear a different song. No one has 
sung it before.  It comes to me unexpectedly, but I know 
it instantly when the bass-line starts, like the repetition of
a dream long hidden by the veil of morning. 

It is not the dream that comes to me in my waking 
hours, the dream so clear I could write it again and again, the dream 
so certain it is scary.

Yet here is a question mark of a revelation, crawling 
from the black hole of stays and and wheres and reasons to leave.
This precocious point of punctuation settles itself on my shoulder,
a firm hand of approval looking forward into an unknown future. 

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