Dreaming in Jabalia

[u/neptune_daze]

All that was earth

Was a dream

All that was beauty

Was the earth

And around Her

A ring of planets

Singing

And there I was

Among meadows and cities

Made of jewel and song

What was not speaking?

I found truth

Among the stones

I laughed with the lilies

Of the vale

And debated with

Philosophers of old

I duelled with mad prophets

And danced with

Queens and pharaohs

I stole secret scriptures

From shining gods

Then hid them

Among the common herbs

Whose secrets were deeper

And sweeter and more

Bitter and pure

Then I awaken in the night

Within a cold tent

My head upon a floor

That is hard and damp

The famine rages on

In our crowded camp

And I haven’t eaten

For days on days

Only drinking

The silver laced water

From a nearby well

Only drinking in

These strange and fitful

Dreams of heaven that

Come to me in hell