The Dreaming

Photo by Andreas Wagner on Unsplash

There is a path most follow
to enhance themselves at the
expense of others.
Oh! subtlest of traps —
I gave up ‘success’ for freedom
to travel only by tide
abandoning both artifice & inflation.
Few know me.
I live beyond the hour
demands of time or others.
This is the sole freedom —
to know even the treasured
white chapel high on the
escarpment is still in the dreaming.
My vow is to travel only
where ideas of success
& failure never follow.

Copyright Simon Heathcote