El Gato Sonador - a Cats Dream

In a quiet night of deep sleep The blankets harbor me – the night to unfold A myriad of dreams my unspoken secrets keep As cinematic stories attempting to be told The curtains open while orchestral music sweeps Awakening chaotic shapes from my subconscious mode Faintly rising as poltergeist’s breath that creeps Through blasting winds from raging storms so bold My heart pounds like thudding wolf’s feet I sneak into dense groves of trees lined with gold Where upon the ground white bones sleep As I fall to disappear like mist into the fold Overhead, ferocious menacing sky breaks With bolts of green jagged crystals - Behold! Crashing through a cat’s eye as gargantuan streaks That quake and pound the ground, then explode A distant caterwauling yowls in throats that shriek Mauling the earth with penetrating claws exposed As ashen fang gleams as it thrusts to pierce and seek The taking of blood slashing, so fiercely, so bold I feel the weight upon my chest and cheek The vibrations of fear are purring. then implode As my breath quickens….. I awaken to peek And there he sits – waking from his sleep My big black cat looking utterly freaked! July 3, 2022