Heliotropism - Les Bernstein

[Larry Robinson]

Heliotropism


I am dreaming
always dreaming
a protagonist sleepwalking 
these most ordinary chapters
of thought's well-worn grooves

things will always happen
an anarchy of experience
mess and distraction
bountiful and inexhaustible
in my epic novel
no one is reading

to tell a little bit of truth
here is a non-fiction version
my story is my story
my story is just a story
my story is not true

will the sleepwalker awake
to an illuminated darkness
no foothold in the mutable past
no mindless march into ephemera

can there finally be
the silencing of language
the inner symphony 
with only one sustained note
of full throated living

just simple
so simple
being
and not 
so simple   
being 
in the soft glow
of an eternal now

	- Les Bernstein