My dreams keep making promises,
great things they have in store for me.
I climb and climb and follow leads
of phantom concierges.
The staircase to the treasure winds
unending, goals I hope to reach
replaced by sequences that seem
to grasp my fascination.
I can’t keep up the setting shifts.
This wasn’t where we meant to go,
at least not from what I was told
when this ambition started.
A living room becomes a lobby
of a great establishment
fifties gangsters battlements
of ping pong tommy guns.
The wife and mother faces charges
though I know not what she did
while the other gangsters hid
or fell while they were fighting.
All I wanted to begin with
was to have my jacket changed,
brand new colors rearranged
in patterns captivating.
Countless quests came to swallow
the dream I dreamed while I was dreaming
in their ceaseless act of breeding
to replace my first desire.