Messages

Messages

Late night visitors
Ominous jinn in my dreams
Appear night after night with
Startling messages
Threatening, they rise into
View, spirits on the horizon.

Emerge in shadows
Like dangerous messengers
Menace my secure fabric
Like a magic spring
Suddenly appear in the brain
Fiendishly fascinating

The glance of an eye,
Smell of coffee, some chance word
Whether in dream, broad daylight
Or insanity, brings visions
All sorts of vapors,
Odd beings, terrors, delusions

Unconscious signs
Carry keys to a new realm
Adventures, desired and feared
Self discovery
Destruction of the old world
Wondrous reconstruction

Bolder, cleaner more
Spacious, a humane life;
That is the lure, the promise,
The terror of these
Nighttime visitors, these jinn
Floating jewels in my dreams