Don’t Forget to Wake
By Joseph Roque
Everyone needs dreams,
magical and instant escapes
to 3D fantasies; careful though,
dreams are bi-polar and unpredictable—
One night, happy fireside memories;
the next, hazy-moon Halloween howls
and bloody screams.
Taste the passion of a dream that
brings you love; the sweat and shake
of a lover’s fiery wake, or shudder
and stumble from a dark demon’s
beastly breath.
When the nightmares slowly unwind,
kneel and pray your mind resets
to a different place and time.
A love and hate affair with dreams
a small price to pay for the
sometimes-subtle fine line
between a smile and the scream.
Joseph Roque is a poet who frequently writes about life, love, loneliness, growing older, alienation, and the joys of youth. His poems have appeared in Psychopoetica, Mad Swirl, Aphelion, Death Head Grin, The Poet’s Haven, RagMag, and Cerebration. His latest book is Ashes And Excuses.
