HELEN WARNER        Lament for the Folding Stuff    The Broken Web          
 
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DREAMING
 
Do not ask where I am drifting,
All my boundaries are still shifting.
Familiar faces start to change
Familiar places distort in range.
 
I keep running trying to find
Elusive targets sweet and kind
My steps are heavy, I cannot hurry
To where I see all others  scurry.
 
The distant laughter I can hear
To reach it would soon quell my fear
But dangerous rivers must be crossed
Through raging waters I am tossed.
 
All my struggle not to drown
Still strong currents pull me down
And in the murky depths I see
Another face looking at me.
 
Surely I should recognise
The loving signals in those eyes
But I swim away and just in time
My head emerges coated in slime.
 
Continuing my journey I well know
My dishevelled appearance will surely show.
All around will be so clean
My wretched self should not be seen.
 
I search for somewhere to be on my own
But now I’m not at all alone
With crowds of people all around
The company I wanted now I’ve found.
 
I approach the friends that matter
Breaking up their mindless chatter
But they only look away
As I wake up at break of day.