Le Belle Reve

The day starts fast

I work and I labor

Pausing only to list

The tasks I am able

To finish with work

Like a busy old clerk

With no direction

But dissatisfaction

In such a haste

With no time to waste

Lonely I pace

Alone in my race

When caught in my stride

I see her beside

A building I know

An alley I’ve seen

I cross to her side

I make myself seen

Her skin is soft

Or softer than cream

Her eyes dance around

They twinkle and gleam

I’m under her spell

I know what I mean

Taking her hand

Having no plan

We run down the alley

Into a lost land

Step out on a mountain

Majestic in beauty

High on a slope

And so far to sea

She smiles a whisper

My eyes do believe

I let her take lead

To see what I’ll see

In time I adjust

And weary of lust

I check my surroundings

What can I trust?

I’m on a beach

With my woman of dreams

She wades in the water

Says we’re a team

Tells me she loves me

Says it’s to be

Says not to grieve

For she’ll never leave

Lost in her stare

And so unaware

I have no measure

Of how I got where

Complacent and lost

In eyes so soft

I have no motion

I’ve drank of her potion

Reality grabs me

And then around me

I see what I need

I need what I see

My eyes they arrive 

On a lonely blue sky

Empty of stars

And so unalive

Dropping my gaze

To meet with her face

I see the same sky

In her weary blue eyes

She walks on the beach

No footprints she leaves

She walks on the water

And dives in the sea

I beg and I plead

I swim out to sea

But she never surfaced

Why did she leave?

I dive down deep

The ocean floor I creep

I search under rocks 

And old fallen trees

Till the life leaves me

I search and I pray

Till I become free

Under water so grey

I wake on the ground

I look and I see

There’s no one around

No one but me

Alone in an alley

That I’ve never seen

Alone by a building

That I’ve never been

I think on a dream

Fragments of scenes

Skin soft as cream

Blue eyes with a gleam