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Autumn Leaves

volume 6 number 7

In My Mind
by Kay Florea

Deep within my pragmatic mind.
Armistice I try to find.
Strange as it may seem,

I am hindered upon this scheme.
Dawn is taking light.

Dark is in the night.
I take it deeper,

deeper still.
Hoping the climax will fulfill.
The hinders of my deepest thoughts.
The nightmare that creates the dark.
Salutary is the dream,

as wraiths hover in the cathedral of my mind.
Incognito,

I do arise,

to shape a shape of many sides.
I lay upon a distant shore,

not far from a reservoir.
Hinterland they call it now.
Beckons me to submerse.

Think of waters everywhere.
Deep within,

I do not despair.

Deeper,

deeper,

even more.
The dawn is knocking at the shore.
In my pragmatic mind.
I still the dream I long to find.
Testing the waters edge,

submerging deep into its threads.
Deeper,

deeper I whirl in.
The nightmare has just begun.
Still I am not afraid.
Fakir is benevolent in his trade.
For he seeks to conquer the wraiths that torture me.
Where I find no peace.
I start to see the dawn again,

right above the water.
I am in.
I open to the dawning light,

to find I had the gumption all the time.
To defeat

thy wraiths in my dreams.
To overcome the fears,

I could not see.
To see the light in the night.
To drive the dragons from my mind.
So until we meet again.
Begone my fears,

my foes,

my friends.

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Copyright © 2002, Kay Florea, all rights reserved.

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