Freedom be
in waking
but dreams 
I’m trapped 
maybe so
but I 
always escape 
finally back
to this 
my place 

Like some ship
coming into port
in deep fog
sleep barely lifts 
but gives way 
as I move 
from bedding deep 
into kitchen reef
of fragile cups
and the whistle 
of the kettle 
a fog horn 
from the lighthouse 
says it’s done 
time for coffee 

It’s days 
not nights 
that haunt
must do 
keep distracted 
or those 
memories come 
like the 
postman down 
the lane 

I couldn’t be 
here had I
never been there 
and there has 
always been where 
I was going 
that was until 
I got here 

We all feel 
the same sun
see the same 
moon and wish
upon the same 
stars how can 
anyone therefore think 
that we’re different