I AM A BOOK I NEITHER WROTE NOR READ i am a book i neither wrote nor read a comic, tragic play in which new masquerades astonishing as guns crackle like raids newly each time whatever one is prepared to come upon, suddenly dismayed & afraid as in the dreams which made the fear of sleep the terror of love, the depth one can not leap. how the false truths of the years of youth have passed have passed at full speed like trains which never stopped there where i stood & waited, hardly aware how little i knew, or which of them was the one to mount & ride to hope or where true hope arrives. i no more wrote than read that book which is the self i am, half hidden as it is from one & all who sees within a kiss the lounging formless blackness of an abyss. how could i think the brief years were enough to prove the reality of endless love??????? ENJOY beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young in a world of magnets & miracles our thoughts strayed constantly & without boundary the ringing of the division bell had begun along the long road and on down the causeway do they still meet there by the cut there was a ragged man that followed in our footsteps running before time took our dreams away leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground to a life consumed by slow decay,,,,,,,,,,,, the grass was greener the light was brighter with friends surrounded the nights of wonder looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us to a glimpse of how green it was on the other side steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again dragged by the force of some inner tide at a higher altitude with flag unfurled we reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed world,,,,,,,,,,,,, encumbered forever by desire & ambition theres a hunger still unsatisfied our weary eyes still stray to the horizon go down this road we've been so many times the grass was greener the light was brighter the taste was sweeter the nights of wonder with friends surrounded the dawn mist glowing the water flowing the endless river forever & ever.