Summer Daydreaming

Sometime in no place
A lanky figure wakes me
Fading away in a car lost in the desert
Dreaming of the time I wait for
I wake at each u-turn 3, 4, 5…
Sleeping in a playground next to park benches
I’m somewhere else
Rain on my face wakes me at night
Pine, shrubs, granite, rushing water
Moonlight illuminates, pale naked bodies follow
Out of the earths dark hot insides, into her cold river
A distant voice tells a sad story
So cry with your new closest few
As you play protagonist
and villain
The deepest night, the clearest black
Strangers dance with me to the sound of a fiddle
I quicken my pace, suddenly too far
In between trees and rocks, insects rise up
Lightning strikes
Twilight, walking upstream
Submerged in hot muddy water
An awkward glance, says more
Clinging to granite cracks
Slipping, you don’t want to die like her
I laugh and smile with strangers
I cry with old friends
I pretend to dance
Burning lights in the sky
Sometimes I am happy
Too many voices in my head
Eyes shining in the night,
Tell me I am stupid
I am nothing
You’re too idealistic, too high
I pass out in a deck chair
An old friends sweat on my hands

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