24.08.06
I dwelt in worlds of fantasy,
On dewy webs I danced,
I drank the air of ecstasy,
By fairy realms entranced.
No mortal company kept I,
No being of blood and bone,
But magic spirits of the sky
And eidolons that moan.
My lofty thoughts were treasures rare,
My solitude - a jewel;
Those glistening glades, those visions fair
Were flames on rainbow fuel.
But they that question reveries
And aerial spheres disdain,
My fancies frail and dear did seize:
My heart --- it cried in vain!
A soul in sordid snares was trapped
That had sailed the starlit clouds,
And thus my pinioned dreams were wrapped
In squalid earthly shrouds.
They bound my breast with fatal ropes
Of prejudice and ire,
Choked with lies my cherished hopes,
Smothered my spirit's fire.
I bled; stabbed by their enmity,
Spurred by their spiteful sneers,
I bled to dead conformity,
I, who knew no fears.
Yet have I dared defy the norm
And broken free today,
I shall ride the winds and steer the storm,
I shall swim the Milky Way.
Some day another pair of eyes
Will to boundless seas resort
And seek like me immortal skies,
Inspiration as escort.
Now tattered wings I spread alone,
Restored with silver seams,
Alone amidst the men of stone
I shall live my opal dreams.
