Friday, 12 June 2015

Plato's dream

It must be something of a joke
"I exist"
"I am"
Obscene boast

"I" who surveying the mess of subjectivity find myself the only focal point
the locus
hocus
pocus

the god of the dream obscene
where all the characters read minds, and buildings half-
formed glisten in lucid brightness, bathed in the clear pool of divine subjectivity, infinity.

Yet i awake into the shadow, the ruin of temporal majesty


where now are my beloved Forms?
spat upon by garden gnomes and 
rows and rows of terraced houses identical in
bricks and 
roofs 
and inhabitants

To dream to sleep,
my roving eyes they long to peep
at 
big bosomed maidens 
reft of their garments
and 
champagne glasses