Of Apples and of Worms

From the fall in darkness, to the rise in light
I dreamed a dream throughout the night
then the morning came and gave new sight
where all was gone that been have might.

From the fall in light, to the rise in dark
I dreamed a dream alight from spark
then to this beauty’s sight I harke’d
to make the play and place the mark.

But I feared the worm in apple’s bite
and in the light, I lost the fight
at darkness’s end I missed the mark
and woke from dream without the spark. 

(I fall in darkness, rise from light
anew, through this dream that could be so real
at side of you, the beauty of an angel
where we heavenly kiss, abliss,
and as a god you make me feel)

Through the darkness, through the light
a dream keeps flashing through the night
through the morning, through my sight
through all that was, that been have might.

The dream flashed from a spark
flashed through my heart and found the mark
hunger gnawed the apple’s bite
but looked for worm lest eat it might.

In time I thought the dream now real
copped a look and copped a feel
marked the mark a pyre dark
and set aflame the spark.

(and as I fall in darkness, out of light I rise
anew, for time and time to spend
at side of yours, for as such a sight of beauty
as you, as we,
the gods shall not repent…)

But dreams unreal and never last
and in the apple I found the worm, at last…


2022.09.30 © Daniel L. Raven [Count Daniël Luchies]