And one day I discovered me <br />Acquitted of reality <br />Far off, entranced within a dream <br />Chimeras of felicity <br />A lofty love, a holy beam <br />A sharper truth, oh Deity! <br /> <br />In foreign worlds I was, a flare, <br />Meandering through shaded air <br />My crystal soul diffused the night <br />Reverberations everywhere: <br />“What darkness can compare with light <br />Sullied with pain and mortal care? ” <br /> <br />Lighter than breeze I made my way <br />Ebon espoused to fading grey <br />In white I was an odditye <br />Defiling perfection’s array <br />A query and a sweet reply: <br />The aether cradles not the clay? ! <br /> <br />Then halted I afore a scene <br />A spider in a silver screen <br />I neared, he said in somber strain <br />Give ear O mortal to my keen: <br />Draw forth the quick’ning cup of pain <br />He dies who shuns the sip of spleen <br /> <br />He ended and revealed to me <br />A stream of dazzling clarity <br />Ablaze with sacred appetite <br />I drank with full alacrity <br />He simpered and passed out of sight <br />I sunk in insobriety! <br /> <br /> <br />Beirut <br />November 3rd 1988<br /><br />Samer Madbak<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poem-041-a-different-dream/
