Doors and Keys

It was a turn of the clock
tick tock tick tock
that click
that sound
like a minstrel on a meteora
playing lute on a monk's mantra

It was a marvelous sound
I close my eyes
and listened
it transports me to somewhere
it was stale
like an everglade
on a midnight air
I open my eyes
I come around
there's no one

there's nothing

there's just this
vast place
this vast vast blackness


A light, a faint blue light
it came closer
and blurs -
and then I saw myself
behind a closed door
and I have a key in my hand
and there are hundreds of them
as I look down...

out of curiosity
I want to drop the key
I was holding
and pace up fast
into the clearing

but instead I grip it tight
and took it up
and open the door

that big wooden door
and...
and...
I saw you
you're real
you are there

as I open that door
I saw you
Is this a dream?
Is it?

because if it is -
let me dream
let me be lost here forever
with you
forever

Forever you always say
I love you my husband...
forever.