Surreal Reality - Transformed Perception Poem by Joshua C. Whiting

As I reflect on all my yesterdays
Strange weird appearances in many ways
Didn’t seem that way at the time
But reflection is different, I find

Evokes emotions of distant feelings
Leaving the soul, all its revealings
Sometimes surrounded by a misty cloud
An imprint embedded like a shroud

Hazy as a summer’s mist
Tactile as rain drops liquid kiss
Lying in bed, escape into daydreaming
Sounds of ohm-like chimes ringing, beaming

Sonorous surrealistic singing
Euphoria keeps me clinging
Into sweet slumber, where I easily fly
Across the universe soaring so high

How non-rational, vague, abstract
Subconscious endeavor bent to distract
Linear thinking dismissed from conscious reality
Stream of consciousness with no finality

Yet it could be dense as early morning fog
Or warmth from a fire place slow burning log
To glide into the surrealistic state
Requires a soft, passive focus to concentrate

Gently focus with half-closed eyes
Mystic glimmer easily belies
A surreal experience in the raw
Visions, images, the mind will draw

All these phenomena
Evolve into surreal drama
Conclude everything is surreal
It’s how you perceive and what you feel