in brave awakening

striding in a daydream,
a fortune's fair in reverie.
sunning in a moonbeam
with not-so-distant misery

awake from this wretched trance!
retrace each step to the fork in the road
bring gifts to the offering of circumstance
and repent of paths men chose.

a traitors curse
to this ground men tread;
on broken earth,

a solitary flicker;
an iridescent glimmer
of what some call a "fool's paradise"