Dreamstate

All at once
I started up
Noticing the time

Four o’clock
Naught is will
As if this room weren’t mine

To my own bed
I did retire
Twas slightly past midnight

I recognize not
This gloomy hall
I see in candlelight

Memory tugs
At the edge of my thoughts
But still I cannot touch

The fragmented edges
Of that dream
Of which I thought so much

Who should I ask
To lead the way
Out of this madcap scene?

I find no one
I am alone
And so, on I dream

The nightmarish world
Where I’ve been cast
Feels so much like home

Yet in my soul
I truly know,
Here, I do not belong

So I turn morosely
To the room
From which I’ve just come

To sleep, to dream
And to await
The arrival of the sun