CONTRARY REALITIES

           


        In dreams
            I often go back
                where I've been
            to visit buildings
                long since left behind.
        There,
            well beyond thought,
            I again begin to re-enact
                the Zodiac of my mind.
        But why,
            I wonder,
                do I often find that
        through some strange new door
            I've gone astray?
        or to this passage
            were my eyes made blind
                when last I saw this wall
                    by light of day?
                    By night
        this altered vision
            has its way of shining
                just as true as any star
        and yet by dawn
            this door cannot delay to fade
                into the wall without a scar.   
        But rival 'scapes
            I only see at night,
        as stars at noon
            are absent to our sight.

 

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[TLK]

"cannot delay to fade"?