Daymare by Ann Christine Tabaka

Fragments of dreams

scattered among the ruins

of once lofty ambitions,

buried along with lost loves

and white lace promises.

Standing tall against

the crumbling visions.

Whispers of gargoyles 

devouring drowned hope

Gray smoke rising

to signal hapless souls,

like so many cold dead fires

gasping for air.

Over and over again

we try to become

what we can never be.

Dashed on the rocks of futility.

Ann Christine Tabaka is a nominee for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry.  She lives in Delaware, USA.  She is a published poet and artist. Credits: Page & Spine, The Paragon Journal, The Literary Hatchet, The Stray Branch, Trigger Fish Critical Review, Foliate Oak Review, Bindweed Magazine,The Metaworker, Raven Cage Ezine, RavensPerch, Anapest Journal, Mused, Apricity Magazine, Longshot Island, The Write Launch, The Stray Branch, Scryptic Magazine Ann Arbor Review.  *(a complete list of publications is available upon request)