Shifting seas

Ready for a big journey

The ocean waves of my dreams carry me

Down to the pier where an attendant asks me

Are you really ready to commit to this

Long and dangerous night sea journey

And at this particular time

I don’t really think he understands

There is no alternative

So my dreaming self

Signs the paper as I receive my ticket

And then the scene shifts and I am on a raft

Accompanying me a prostitute, a drug addict and a sailor

The seas are high and the waves are vast

And rest of the dream is eclipsed completely

By the forgetting of night

But I remember it now as we speak of how powerful

These inner messages can be

It was not that long until I would

Sign up for sobriety

And in another dream

Dad would call me out

Of that den of iniquity

Showing me a wallet that was

Bare of cash

And as I ran from there

I watched the entire place

Burst into flames

And burn to ash

As in our waking newly married life

Fires raged

All around us

In distant hills

A phase of my life was ending

And all these years hence I realise how hidden

Is our deeper understanding

And think again of that powerful force within

Which has glimpses and intimations

Of the deeper hidden truth of things

And reveals them slowly

Under cover of the night

As we awaken in dawn’s early light

To a future we never seemed to choose

Our rising destiny

Which our soul leads

Us to navigate

Stormy waves

Attending dreams

As shifting seas

Uproot and rearrange our inner and outer life

Entirely