Wicked Dreams

O wretched heart why persist

To clench the hand, to make the fist? Thou hast no enemies but thine friends With whom guilt oft dost make ammends.

So tell me not of all thine pains

As Ido not care who it is that reigns,

For all I desire lies here in this bed

And with the sun we shall soon be wed.

Run away, take thy leave,

For thou art much too quick to deceive.

Do not play, nor make believe,

For it is of wicked dreams thou dost conceive.

O vile mind why resist

The passing pleasures, the perfumed wrist? Make thou a place for her heart,

With which she may take her part

In other joys that thou dost desire

Of her, however, thou shalt not tire.

For she is like the summer sun,

Like flowing laces left undone.

Steal away, come with me.

We shall catch the night and set it free. Embrace the day, much like me;

And our love shall live for all of eternity.

Anthony N. Chandler

that never close.

The pain Of Separation

from seks. | The confused state of realities é An transition. } Split seconds in time on in a Lifetime? GrOWLNgG pains Spurred on by

mistaken identities.

Too much pain.

Too much joy.

Nothing in between

but Less of each.

Sensitivity demands the search.

Truths buried in silence

Lxe waiting for a voice,

ecstatically rising to the surface

fo project their gifts

to the souk of their provider.

Gems glowing outwards

their beauty blindly ignored

by vacant eyes that see outside themselves a flat plane

whose eternal truths are trapped

within the framework of thein idyllic seky

Imaginations

Empty versseks behind flaming sockets.

Static, electrifying currents surround the magnetic

forces, Suck hungry squirming maggots in,

Teaming towards the blazing ingerno,

4gniting the energy beneath ebony pools,

smoldering in the flames, suffocating screams

writhing 4n agony; singed

parasites blindly move en masse no Longer

many but one whining down blackened cavities,

hissing, 4ts crusty shell crumbles. a Only traces sporadically convulsing

against a pitch backdrop,

eling Limply to Liplesaverds

UPEI X-P RESS February6, 1992