Dream Reader

Dream Reader
Christopher Bogart

A young man He would be
And a thoughtful man,
Willing to read,
And by reading to soar -
At once upon a Dream
To be borne,
A Dream
Once raped
In a tale of quiet violence,
Then restored
Through rough redemption.

For when he reads,
Ever so slowly,
Ever so languorously,
He’ll be born again
And again
To sing sad
Songs of sound,
Of flight,
That hum on wings of mad cacophony,
Words will twist and turn
Upon his tongue.
And through his brain
In a plaintive voice that will sing
One song once so simple,
In his youth,
So very simple,
So longing to be heard
In its flight
From the night black letters
Of a stark white page.

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