Soliloquy

I have endured life as a dreamer

Everlastingly sure of awakening

Some day to a hotter summer

Or even to a brighter spring.

I’ve faced days with pain and joy

I’ve been a divine being’s toy,

dove deep into frozen water

and burned to ashes, freaked and sober.

Up-down tossed by the waves to a fen,

By implacable billows of an eternal sea.

For a friend, only paper and pen,

And these pale words which speak for me.