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Dream of Change
I wake, disconcerted and exhausted. The room looks normal,
furniture appearing as normal. Time passes,
and nothing unusual happens. The floor then creaks,
signaling someone to appear, but there dwells nothing.
I wake again, once more fazed by my surroundings.
Seemingly standard, but somewhat peculiar.
This time, I discern something prior unnoticed. A crow,
gliding through the night sky outside my vacant window.
I wake, a third occasion. My eyes displaced,
I scan strange surroundings once more.
I am beyond the window this time, but still human.
Then the reaper I dread appears, coming at my end.
I wake, for the fourth and final time. A different location
from before. My home, not the room I dreamt of thrice.
It was a dream of the atypical variety. Wary of this dream,
I resolve to stay calm despite the ominous feeling of death.
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This is an ekphrastic poem is based on Will Barnet's piece titled Study for the Dream (1990).