Kit Kelen #300 - the dream is bigger than the night

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the dream is bigger than the night

each of us inhabits a death

that's a world we dream towards

look up to the far fires

somewhere in the night my village

it's the day done

now turned to stone

and smoke

elaborate this preparation

all the years towards forever

each absence as it is, will be

uniquely ours was

I have a window of night

stars tell all of the distances

back to beginning

no one and nothing will see so far

a breeze of thatch

and the aged ox

led to its wake

but the worlds in the dream are more than that

I have a window of day

clouds are written

where each stray thought

finds form to fray

the ancient alphabet

the dream I dream will be more telling

each dusk unfinished

drafts swept off

and night likewise

unsigned

look up to the far fires

how few the moments

heart’s steps are heard

or the breath of worlds

as they turn in the night

that is rarely noted

even the smell of ripening wheat

is something the farmer turns indoors from

the dream is bigger than all that

and the truth is

what’s not telling

time spun my head

till the dream was all

closed in the book

a world of light

let this be my tomb