I dreamed that - Bruce Silverman

[Larry Robinson]

I dreamed that

A large whale, a leviathan, writhed in the ocean
close to the land where I stood, digging downward
Into the deep waters. 

In darkness, I watched with trepidation, witnessing
The enormity of this extraordinary act unfolding
Before my eyes, the force so great, it created a hole

In the ocean that did not, and would not, fill. The
Empty space deepened, seemingly unending, such
That the earth upon which I stood might soon
 
Break off into the blackened deep from its force.
I sensed and still sense, feared and still fear that this
cosmic whale with the gaping mouth of a crocodile

was and is devouring the great sea itself, showing us
the hole In the reality we have wrought, where we 
are headed, and where the very land upon which we

Stand will be shaken by a forbidding hand that will
thrust us into the perilous pit of our own foolhardy
undoing.

	- Bruce Silverman