Caught—Off Balance

Of what use a dream-catcher

when there are no more dreams

December fades to January

after the Solstice another year

behind and ahead uncertainty

snow piles as in a dream of Winter

caught in reality—living devolves

into death and fear of dying—

the shortest darkest day balances

the brightest longest day's ego—

to feel in its darkness its white-scape:

without a dream is to know reality.