Dream On



First dream, let there be light.
It comes this way and that on and on,
To the rhythms of epsilon.
Let's not pretend it can't  exist,
In the light of a flickering star
Realise we're swirling around in an infinite
Eddington maelstrom so far

Hi pretty little birdy in the tree
Why don't you walk and talk with me, hmm ,hmm?
Why should I walk when I can fly.
Why should I talk when I can sing.
By the way ,my song is not for you but a mate,
Sure,you can enjoy it anyway.
Why are you still there
Go about your business,
Cheating and maiming and killing,
Ad nauseum infinitum, tweet, tweet.
Why do you fight with your own kind then,hmm, hmm.
Oh don't worry it's only a skirmish, tweet, tweet.
Why don't  you use nuclear weapons,hmm,hmm?
Well we wouldn't  be as clever as you ,tweet ,tweet.
S'pose so, our massive brains have created such earth shattering inventions,
Our ingenuity knows no bounds . Hmm, hmm.
We couldn't  pull the trigger,tweet, tweet.
Neither can we usually, hmm, hmm.
Why do you have them then ? Tweet ,tweet.
Oh! Little birds in the tree, how silly art thee,
When they are used its catastrophe.

They are gone now, tweet ,tweet.
Where to gone, tweet.
Kingdom come gone,
It's our time now.
There's miles and miles of sunshine in the sky,
We can play all day long,
Precious music the only sound.

Second dream,
This one doesn't  rhyme,
All the lines are out of time .
The harmonies that never were
Everything's  laid to bare  
It takes a lonely man to hear the birds in the trees,
But then all men are lonely and lost.
In a senseless world he'll is bent on making sense,
And heaven's beyond our reach and dreams

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Written on January 29, 2023

Submitted by johnnymackk on January 29, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Words 346
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 7, 21, 7, 9

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