I had a Dream (Sixteenth Night)

I had a dream
a chronic corrosion
of banded stone
and senescent regret
I know not why

anamnestic artifacts
of who we are
mnemonic monoliths
of who we could be
edificant echoes
of who we were

ground distorted
within that indiscernible
firmament of gears
masticating
the nebulous flow
of time

everything
you meant to me
insurmountable dust
to crush my measure
impossible to hold
but in stifled
ode

your bated breath
a prismatic miasma
on my tainted lips
idolic idyllic
a myopic mirage
far beyond
chronophagous
chimes of
it is not time

if only I could
remember
more than
the feeling of losing you
more than
who you were to me
more than
your anemic shroud

I will nevermore know you
as I am evermore alone
asking why
nescio and fiero sanrio et excrucior
for I hate
I love
this fractaled remembrance
beyond a dream

Reviews

[Delmar Cooper]

It is pleasant to exercise my brain once in a while and your poetry stretches the gray cells admirably. I won't bore you with my "take" on your fine poem. It is sufficient to say I have one and it is probably wrong. I looked up the Latin and it seems to be a reference from a line of Catullus (Poem 85 ?) , interesting. I have no Latin, another symptom of misspent youth.

Thank you for sharing this.