alone tonight

How many different dreams
I dream up each day
each one a river
I will follow down
until the ocean opens
wide to swallow any dream
I had before I saw
the hollow mouth
before me, open wide
ready to take me whole
my dream is small
a tiny river
satisfying not the ocean
who is hungry
crashing violently onto shore
again again repeating
in my small ear
I am not enough
I have not enough
to offer, except this
in which I am.
Swallow me whole
so I may become
as expansive and bold
as the ocean deep.

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Too much feeling
or none at all
I can no longer tell.
So many pulls at my heart
I lose my focus
I never start
the hundreds of dreams
that live in my chest
Oh Please universe
do not put me to rest,
before one is born.
I am always in bloom
without any daydreamers
to need me,
to need me to nourish
to fill them with nectar
Something to sustain themselves.
I want to provide fluid
for those who thirst.