Sunbeams (revised)

Sunbeams play in shades of grey  
in dancing shadows on the floor  
Mesmerized & hypnotized,  
I'm drawn into the show
 
Dragons' wings & stranger things  
morph and sparkle and glow,
waltzing in time to photonic rhythms,  
then fade into the void
 
As Transience writes my story  
in disappearing letters & words,
Today's wrenching melodrama  
is tomorrow's mouldering paperback,  
discarded by the side of the road
 
My hopes & dreams,  
expectations & aspirations
are but dancing shadows in my mind,
the illusions & delusions having no more substance
than fading dragons' wings.