Revelations (Framed Daylight)

'So many things I had thought forgotten
 Return to my mind with stranger pain:  
 Like letters that arrive addressed to someone  
 Who left the house so many years ago.”  
                          
                        ― Philip Larkin  
   
   
In a still moment, I heard them  
within a profusion of inane other things,  
Burning, caressing absurdities  
with their persistence, their announcement.  
   
Why must I endure them; they only mock  
my sentience with their grandiose visions  
spilling forth like the sweetest wine  
intoxicating sensibilities,  
my logical conclusions stymied.  
   
Oh, revelatory absurdity  
how you tempt me  
to love foolishly,  
unabashedly, fully and fatally.  
   
I cannot live by your temptation alone,  
you are only a dream.  
   
I revel in everything else;  
the raw realness of framed daylight,  
as your lofty clouds drift by me,  
high and afar.  
   
      .....  
   
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