RNAL#5 (1/06) - The Gunnery

What’s better than an accomplished morning?Subconscious struggle won or lostBalanced order at any costGood and evil dreams do seekTo battle ever after, awake or sleepBoat is self and both are shelvedDipping fingertips off of the side to caress the water and delveFurther down the watery snakeDream boat Dream boatAren’t you really just a noteFor life for men for women for unanswerable certaintiesFor conflicting joys and restricting distaste for believing in the meaning of wasteSometimesFor those minds that are told not to swimThey could drown at their own fearful whim and perpetually dimIt seems their nightcompared to even the darkest of watersis grimcold and forsaken of magic15:end poemdreams can not be contained by four walls it seemsthey beam through but a worthy effort I deemby those walls and images that represent what is seenwhen time and the mind scream with expression and desperately bleedinto the boxcompare your own to others and hope that what is shownwon’t be judged by anything other than a friendly eyebut in the end, who really cares?who really matters?Answer lies in the walls I believeDreams I don’t feel are adequately delivered through punctuation and proseThey flow like poetry I supposeBut who after all really truly knowsSolipsistic perspective shows my coastAnd what for me I feel and realistically see the most(Nate Elston, 2006)English Journal 5 (January 2006) 10