.daydream.

oh i'm caught in a daydream panning my brain for glints of gold what if i'm failing? what if i make it? what if either way i'm on my own? lately i feel like a lady too bald for your braids but so it goes not shaving my face not cinching my waist i'm her either way if you know you know if you know you know if you know you know mother taught me to pray “leave something to say when kingdom comes someday you'll thank me for selling your safety you'll appreciate doing what you're told” take me out to the bay read verses by saints we'll never know turning the page means bracing for change the beat of the waves spells revolution revolution dazed before the daydream am i awake or comatose? am i awake or comatose? siblings come to save me sit down by my side & lean in close repeating a name no one else knows oh i'm living my daydream holding a face that sees my soul maybe we'll make it the war & the babies maybe the tide will take us home poems breaking the language open embrace the rhyme & flow no words you can say can take breath away from me in time we'll dream tomorrow