Night Fears by Michael Keshigian

On summer nights, he viewed dusk
as a kaleidoscopic adventure,
pewter clouds folding into
variable shades of pinks and purples,
then vanishing till the stars
carved their silver imprint
upon the darkening ceiling
with an unusual blast of heat
that would soak his skin
in a sea of sweat
even as he dozed off
and his mind wandered to places
always beyond his reach,
places where contentment rarely flourished,
where occurrences instilled a fear
of no return, of entrapment
in a dark forest of random scenes
with dense, acrid smells of stale moss,
at once vaguely foreign yet eerily familiar,
panicking at the thought of internment,
never again to be released
into the arrival of the new day,
always adrift upon turbulent winds,
forgotten in the chaos
of arbitrary passions and fears,
drowning in his own imagination
without realizing the tangible,
an aimless drift about to prove
the realism of life captured in dreams.

Michael Keshigian is the author of 14 poetry collections his latest, What To Do With Intangibles, published by Cyberwit.net. Most recent poems have appeared in Muddy River Review, Bluepepper, Smoky Quartz, San Pedro River Review, Tipton Poetry Journal. Published in numerous national and international journals, he has 7 Pushcart Prize and 2 Best Of The Net nominations.