Did You Dream Tonight

Did you dream tonight and

if you did was it good was it holy

was it light and love in one colored vision

did the woven blanket wrap around you

like your entranced embrace in your REM cycle

or did you dream of earthquakes and bombs

heartache and disease and abandonment

a boy in the dry dirt thinner than straw

a girl alone on a honking city street island

a falling without flying that never ends

Did you feed your voracious mind

with blackness and gunshot and

the worst of yourself projected on screens

all the obvious waste of human living

like Tator Tots tossed in the mouth

without tasting beyond salt and fat

without nourishing any part of your hungry self

Or did you suckle on the milk of the soul

the new Jerusalem coming down a miasma

and lifting to unveil the community and canon song

and humble looks in another’s eye that says

we are in this together to stumble along

until we watch each other die and our grandchildren

bury us and remember us with gentle yearning

that we loved and we dreamed of love

and the reveries we had in the long nights of unknowing

were good and were always drawing us

toward God’s dream into which we shall all awake