If you Dare

©01-15-2023, Olan L. Smith

Ghostly travelers in kindled dreams of dawn's

Delight, it comes upon a wave forever fluid

In times of lost memories, lost junctures, stored

Away in niches by the bay, where belief meets

Doubt, of times untold. You stand within the mist,

A profile unsung, of times defined by light,

Where life's silhouettes of fate are nigh, near

And far; yet are you if read. Declare it!

Proclaim your future out of grasp, an instant

Upon the surfs' foam are moments of was, is,

And yet. See your future if you dare. It is now

In all that is. It is written, don't you know? It's

No surprise to anyone. It came to awaken you,

But you sleep, you forget, you refuse to know.