The Dreamer.

The divine holds no
equal stare -
it extols the
dreamer that
wishes to embalm
their spirit
in enraptured
flame.

Beside fountains

The Bath of Psyche - Frederic Lord Leighton

empyrean,
dreamers please
deities with hymns
that fable fantasy -
though to deny
virtue would fetch
omens.

Imagination in
cadence, see the
dreamer climb to
Olympian heights
and remain for
eternities
once Expiration's
curtain has
been drawn.

For the dreamer to
remain may bring
descent; a fate
salvaged in unfavourable
mines toiled by
the pathless,

and see the dreamer's
dreams echo despair
with no beauties
as they expire.

Within the dreams -
the wings of an immortal
verse - celestial as the
deities themselves -
deserved of the
fountains.

Messengers to the pathless
that travail, to supplant
their drudgeries with
embers of hope.

Throughout lonely lusts and
broken devotions,
fuelled by reminiscences
and ecstacies;

the dreamer's ascent
to Olympian peaks

to dream upon the
dreamt of.



© Cecil Field