Images

Unending memory
          From a finite time
Pleasures rebuilding
          In an unsettled mind
     Images like red at night

Had little meaning
          Lived in a moment's time
Uncertainty awakened
          Happenstance designed
     Fantasies now my delight

Though daydreams seldom
          More than empty plans
Satisfy realness
          Common senses left behind
     Images like red at morning

More frequent growing
          To pathetic fallacies
Creating numbness
           Once upon becomes unkind
Consciousness now my warning


- Cathy Hanlon 3/00