Of this do we soon regret:
running
without first
jumping at the chance.
I dreamed I could jump
high as I believed.
My legs are springy.
Not light, not dense, not
walking-like,
I can propel in the
not-wine-like sky
not-tea-like air
And spaces only revealed
Under the watch of my brain,
as my body flies, floats, moves
over roofs, walls, stairs, branches,
But that’s just it:
I believe my legs when awake
Are no different under sleep.
I’m no earth, no bone,
no flesh in my dreams,
But a morphing electric,
A life in infinite phases
or just below,
I am faceless, nameless,
relatively undefined,
an arrow, a logical cat.
And that’s why reality
is a bore.
It sucks all the lives
out of dreaming,
keeps creativity in out skulls,
our legs locked beneath our skin
and static truths, like these legs,
only ignite
behind the soft white jelly
of our balmy eyes.
