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Shattered Dreams
by Moses Hochstetler (Age: 60)
copyright 07-14-2003


Age Rating: 13 to 127

 
The gray-dawn of morning penetrates my bedroom windows
And threatens to encroach into my dream-world.
The mist and smog mingle with the steady patter
Of rain that keeps drifting in and out of my awareness.
Cars and trucks spatter water onto damaged sidewalks,
A cacophony of sirens pierce my mental stupor.
Someone flings a hostile epithet into the foggy air
That echoes and re-echoes through the crags
And crevasses of my violated mind.
I hear screaming tires on wet pavement;
The wail of a car horn, the grinding of metal on metal.
Somewhere a "ling-a-ling" sounds at a rail crossing -
Black and white mental apparitions float
Like cobwebs past my mind's eye;
The ballyhoo of a freight train rumbles
Through the backstreets of my semi-consciousness.
I toss in a tangle of sheets and imaginations,
Vainly clinging to the last threads
Of my sweet and sour vanishing dreams
Before the inevitable reality dawns.
The sound of the alarm shatters my equilibrium
As I rise to face another copeless day.




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07-15-2003 Janet Owenby    

Excellent write again Moses , but try using some
peaceful images while your awake to help you cope with the copeless days. Imagining the sound of an oceon or the sound of a mourning dove normally works for me. Just dont get caught dreaming on the job. LOL
07-14-2003 Gregory Christiano    

I struggle to get up every morning, just like you...and try and cope with a copeless day...it is a curse...go to work, fall into a rut. Oh well, you put it so eloquently.
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