While we dreamt

Floating in a timeless space
Dreaming of long-ago days
All memories lay suspended
While the winds grew demented

The sun dipped low many a times
Church bells rang a million chimes
Seas brimmed over with tainted tears
Torrential rivers wept their despairs

Wild poppies that once ran over vast plains
Their seeds became dust while waiting for rains
Edgy and slippery and recently bare
A once snowy slope that ran out of its share

Towering skyscrapers razed to ground
And rebuilt a thousand times around
All lost in a little snort of slumber
While forests steadily turned to timber

Earth to concrete, to dirt, again
Streams to clouds, to drops of rain
Hundreds of thousands of circles of rust
While we dreamt, our dreams turned to dust

Woke up to find a different reality
Saw one another in all our frailty
Unnerved yet buoyant in primeval fervor
Tied as one in strands impossible to sever

Drifted in bewilderment for an unending moment
Uttered silent words which for ages were unspent
Grasped the minute-less hours that never came
Sank back to nothingness where it was still the same