Kaleidoscopes
Letters strewn within a desk drawer
And a coin within a ring
Are they figments of a memory
Or are they fragments of a dream.
Dreams that drift among the nighttime
Visions clear in light of day
Confusion lost in fantasy
Forms illusions’ disarray.
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Like the rhythm of a heartbeat
That belies its sense of woe
The earth is spinning on its axis
But it’s all a puppet show.
Smiles and laughter mask true countenance
Betray the feelings deep within
Wild menageries of players
Hide the masquerade therein.
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Time that drifts upon the ocean
Winds that shift the sands of shore
Find the time adrift the ocean
But its pleadings it ignores.
Seconds swept right into decades
Decades held within a void
Will a light year free the memories
Or will moments be destroyed.
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Like a scene that keeps replaying
Through the universe of time
At the moment that you parted
Did you know it was goodbye
Like a kaleidoscope of color
Forming snapshots caught in time
Does its movement blur the image
Or change the image of the mind.
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As an errant star among the Heavens
Finds a pathway all its own
Voices raised in soulful mourning
Into the wind their songs are blown
On a dark and lonely roadway
Or a sunny windswept lane
Moving swiftly on its journey
Is the echo of your name.
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