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Silent Dreams
They say dreams are essentially silent
tombs shut away by doors of sleep
that necropolis beyond the wake
hiding voices that long to speak
a cast of thousands behind the lids
strangers by the author’s script
more than ghosts and less than men
with volumes lost to memory
echoes cast to catacombs
shadows chased before the dawn
the nets of recall deny the roar
left behind on whispered shores
still the haunts will have a say
bring forth meaning to the day
silence stolen from the crypts
those barest hints of dreamt mystics.
© 2019. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20191029.
tombs shut away by doors of sleep
that necropolis beyond the wake
hiding voices that long to speak
a cast of thousands behind the lids
strangers by the author’s script
more than ghosts and less than men
with volumes lost to memory
echoes cast to catacombs
shadows chased before the dawn
the nets of recall deny the roar
left behind on whispered shores
still the haunts will have a say
bring forth meaning to the day
silence stolen from the crypts
those barest hints of dreamt mystics.
© 2019. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20191029.
Published 1st Dec 2019
Author's Note
The poem “Silent Dreams” was inspired by a meme with the tagline, “Dreams are essentially silent”, accredited to the 1943 film Meshes of the Afternoon.
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