Now dreams passed
Moving swiftly like
Gale force winds
Knocking down power
In darkness I
Sit finally hearing
The birds chirping
A new day
As the sky
Begins to glow
A warm blue
Oh I know
That dreams only
Ever stay asleep
And now awake
Day is true
Salvation has come
In this daybreak
Awakened and sweating
Unable to shake
The demon ravens
From my minds
Canopy they roost
Hiding in dreams
Which linger like
The bitter taste
Of some pill
I am reminded
That my dreams
Can break through
My slumber like
Thieves’s flashlights searching
For my sanity
Finding they crush
Rip and steal
Leaving me empty
Hollow and weeping
Until I turn
And remember you
My one reality
Bringing me back
To my world
Once again safe
Unable to sleep
Watching you breathe
Slowing my heart
To beat yours
Peace at last
Comes to me
My one anchor
Amidst stormy seas
Mooring me you
In safe harbor
My dreams haunted
Me with cruelty
Of people pursuing
And of torture
Me a loving
Man I wonder
What dreams mean
Unable to sleep
Wallowing in meanness
And abject inhumanity
I pray to
My Heavenly Father
To hear the
Sweet angelic lullabies
I was blessed
With peace but
Patience not that
I prayed for
Now I have
It and understand
The calmness both
Bring waiting is
A profound blessing
I learned that
It’s best to
Allow a River
To free itself
From a logjam
Rather than me
Jumping pounding stomping
On the trees
Let the flow
Of your life
Free itself from
Complications have patience
To gain peace
And now the
Birds outside my
Windows have begun
To sing the
Tickling morning melodies
Awakening a sleepy
Saul who is
Stretching and yawning
Soft crimson east
Beyond the trees
Like the aroma
Of apple pie
Wafting through checker
Curtained kitchen windows
Or like your
Rough shadow as
It brushes against
My cheek kissing
Me good morning
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 