To Those Who Call Me Dreamer

I turned my gaze onto the west
Where laid decaying graves.
The heroes who were buried there,
Forgotten were their days.

And in the north, the stars shone bright,
The signals of a dying race
Who never on this living earth
Had ever set their steady pace,

And then I wondered at what skill could give the nighttime sky her grace.
The shadows floating through the air wrapped softly 'round my reverent face,
Directing it to southward turn. My eyes then met a wicked place
That burned with crimson fury strong, directing it toward waste.

When all was scorched to charcoal ash,
I forced my gaze to eastward turn,
And there, upon a knotted knoll,
An ancient man appeared to yearn

For something sacred kept from him.
A headstone marked the ground
Not fifteen paces far from him.
I turned my gaze around

And back again onto the west,
I searched for some symbolic clue.
The graves I saw were not the same;
They took a darker, softer hue,

As if the dead had lost a thing 'twas rightly to them due.
I spun again to northward turn the full attention of my view,
And stars were streaking 'cross the sky, as though the stars were wont to do.
Again I gazed upon the south, and there the flames had stopped their feud

To let alone a city grand.
It glinted emerald in the night,
And I in disbelief 'gan turned
To search the knoll for ancient wight.

The knoll was barren, trodden not.
Impossible, I spun
To look upon the western graves--
But thereupon were none,

And when I looked 'gan to the north,
The starry skies were clouded o'er.
Then to the south unconsciously
My senses I in vain implored,

For surely 'twas impossible to disappear a hoard.
Still by some power all were gone; I closed my eyes to ward
My hopeless reason from a cause which reason shan't endure.
And when they opened, southward still my gaze was starkly turned.

Straight toward me walked a figure robed
Wrapped white, as if a star herself.
She came upon me there, alone,
And joined me on my worldly shelf.

Her face at once I recognized.
I knew what then had passed,
And when she left, the gods I blessed,
And I toward home did cast.

5/29/07