The Dream

Lines written 21st April, 2014.

North Kent coast, England.

Was it a dream, or did I see

A heavenly searchlight come looking for me?

The sky felt heavy - and my heart too,

My troubles so many, kept splitting in two;

A house on a cliff, overlooking the sea

May seem as a refuge, the real world to flee

This decorous balcony, these Regency airs,

May fail to beguile one, who guilelessly stares;

Till at my back, blithely calling for me

My treasured child, dangling ipad on knee,

(Lolling on sofa, telly in view)

To some new errand, and my senses too;

The world before her, its infinite scope

My soul’s true quest, and all my hope;

That hole in the sky, still far out to sea

That shaft of dread light, searching for me.