Pearl

With a milky eye

late last night 

fact or fiction 

you decide

was it war 

or peace

the difference 

between drums and melody

strangely audible

fast asleep slowly

formations form

we assume

to be real

alive somewhere

or within a play

did you say for sure

somehow

a premonition

of fantasies drawn

effortlessly like our own

are mind's alone

the fakes of thought

so we make

truth appear

by sleeping

they tick tick

tick so so easily 

see the sea within

another way to sense 

those dreams we conjure

are the feelings 

to really know their clues

it's time now

to wake and wash 

away disorder

glimpse  this morning's

Sultan moon

slivered languid laying

still and calm emerging

through a shadowy fog

 

this mere alignment 

tilts her pearly clarity 

to know nature 

be her mystery

Pearl - verse and image / pearl digital drawing, 2021 JS