Lawrence S. Pertillar (February/'47 / Connecticut, USA)

Once upon a time...
I was out of my mind!
Influenced by delusion
Believing what I wanted...
Was easy for me to find!
Like a dream wished,
Appearing undone
And not clearly defined.

I made the thought mine...
And it sat inside my head!
Only when I decided
To use God's given skills,
Did I I have the will
To focus upon my consciousness...
Get up from where I sat,
From others who dosed in and out
Of schemes with quick plots,
And boasted adventures.

Hoping to snatch 'possibilities'
From thin air,
And keeping hollow promises
There...
To do what needs to be done,
Tomorrow!

When tomorrow never comes,
For the one who sits and waits
To 'see' and contemplate what lands
Upon a darkened runway!
Showing no clues of a purpose,
Without the slightest light that dims...
Where to set the doomed flight down,
To meet a collision with fools,
In delusion!