Reach, reach to me through these dreams and touch my eyes with tender fingers I long to feel again. Restore my sight.
Help me to see some glimmer of hope that might sustain me just a little while until I can reach beyond this suffocating fog to find this little light of mine misplaced somewhere outside myself.
All I recall is a light in your eyes removed from my presence, taken from my life without warning or explanation.
It has been so dark, so cold without you.
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Reviewed by Dan Zuewski (Reader)
Reviewed on July 23, 2004
Some dreams have the annoying habit of seeming to be so lifelike that it's a real shock when you wake up... and some are much nicer, where you know they're dreams... yet you play along anyway... I've felt similar to this poem... and now I think you've have inspired me to write something... hmm... thanks! :)
Just as life during the pandemic was color-coded with different hues representing different levels of danger, life in its aftermath has become shaded in similar ways. As a self-styled “Seeker of Beauty with Beauty,” (borrowing from a quote by W.E.B.
powerfully penned!
word skills. A sorrowful subject on a beautiful canvas!