Lost imagining

When am I lost here

Feeling so alone

Abandoned by my imagining

A sorrow deeper than I can name

Lays wordless claim to my soul

Dawning recognition

Shows how your devaluation

Stole from me

The one place I could find

Freedom, joy and refuge from the pain

Imagination helps me dive deep

Or soar within

Born aloft

Upon the uprush of a vision

Formerly eclipsed

Imagination is for me

Not so much an escape

But a way of growing wings

Which help my soul

Attain a wider vision

And a deeper understanding

Than I could ever find

Pinned to the ground of a barren reality

Within which

You wanted to imprison me

In lost imagining

Shadows appear more real

Than than the enlightening

Summoned up by soulful expression

 So I must stay awake

Within this dreaming

Within this imagining

It is not illness

Or dysfunction

It is my life’s healing nectar

Informing my soul with love

With magic

With release

Returning me to the ocean

Where my thirst abates

Restoring me as again

As I watch

Your

Doomed

Desiccated

Deserted waste lands

Disappear