A Nightmare I Had One Day

And in that river of degradation were assorted bones
And the assorted bones were a mystery,
Until they gradually began to move together,
And link together like a father links with his daughter
When he gives her away to her beloved,
Incense dreaming and candles showing the way of light,
Lovingly coming together,
Leg bones and arm bones
The tendons and muscle and gristle tightened its grip
Until the bones became one,
Until they became a being of human proportions,
And it rose from the river’s bed,
And beckoned me come into the river,
The icy cold no longer held any fear for me,
I slid down the bank in hypnotic fear-eyed trance,
And danced the dance of death
With the skeleton no one would see but me.
All the walking woman had seen was the lone man
Walk into a Winter’s river icy chill,
He struggled and appeared to embrace something she said,
As he kicked and danced until he went still,
And floated by in once more still waters.

AJ Buttle