GOOD MORNING CAPTAIN!

A Novel by Doug Burgum

THE DREAM

By Doug Burgum

“I had a dream,” I told them.
“Going to, I know not where.
On a bright shining, silver bird,
Soaring high upon the air.”

“What does it mean?” I asked them.
“The mists that fill my head?”
“Reach down beyond the dream, my friend,”
The whispering voices said.

“I see a room,” I told them.
“Humming loudly, full of sound.”
A dozen conversations;
I sat and looked around.

“And what is this?” I asked them.
“These feelings, please arrest.”
Strange, this butterfly wing,
That beats upon my breast.

“From across the room,” I told them.
“A hand reached out to me.
And led me through the darkness,
To a land I could not see.”

“What was that place?” I asked them.
For nothing mattered there,
But the pleasures of the moment,
And the music in the air.

I shall seek it out,” I told them.
I shall cross the seven seas.
The whispering voices spoke, I think,
Almost lost upon the breeze.

You may search and find your spirit,
But this land you seek, no never.
For like a dream, you shall awake,
And the moment gone forever.