Mitigation

Written in '02.

"Mitigation"

She frequents my dreams,
My subconscious revels,
Yet waking life rebounds-
This phantasmal bombshell.

And the floodgates of reality
Delineate my preoccupation,
Drench this primordial abiding fascination.

For the past tends to re-elapse
And struck with a familiar feeling
I will mount an opportunistic rock,
Saluting the free-rider’s journey, pining for what could never have been…and gain.

Things will be better in hop-scotch.