Fantasies of imagery
Recirculate with revelry
Fastened to the majesty
Of warm enclosing
Fast exploding
   fireworks
      brushed
         with strokes
On psychic 
   canvas
Stretched across
Our hidden eyes
And held within
   the wells
      that we have dug
With daily history

Each obstacle 
Each path
Each gateway
From the wrath
Of sullen sadness
Springs upon horizons
Dropped beneath
   each tragedy
      and opens with
The grandeur of
A hopeful dream

(c) 1996 James Oliver Smith, Jr