Love and Fantasy

poem I wrote in 2004. edit from a few months ago.

Love and Fantasy

Seizure-like forgiveness drags love and fantasy together

and as she forgets her nouns I recall the wordplay of hope.

Love and fantasy empty into the same ocean.

We swim at night into the middle,

leaving our glasses on the shore.

The night is a fantasy, a cataract of fear and hope.

Love and fantasy empty into the same ocean;

together we contemplate this buoyed present.

copyright R. Bettmann 9/2004

Author: Robert Bettmann

Founder of Day Eight, and the DC Arts Writing Fellowship.