Thursday 26 April 2012

Day 26 Dream


Dream.
Holes in the ground where a floor used to be
Punched down through storeys, sliding towards gloom
While workers walk on air, passing, warning me
Stay clear for your own good, avoid this doom.

They leave, I listen to the cylinder
Of trace fossil rock, eyeing the cobbles
The masons carved (those murmuring chisellers),
Left to guard against me, protect their gospels
From my sight. I turn away, uncertain
But knowing that they’ve wrought fears into dragons
At every turn, to stop an incursion:
If words are ignored, here there be caverns.

The price is high for reasons of their own,
They turn me aside with guardians of stone.

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