What If It Isn't Exactly The Dreamland You Wanted

what if it isn't exactly the dreamland you wanted in your dream

will you still make do behind your cheerful
 curtains with the ruffles?

and you ordered the cherry sprigged dress and not the one

with the yellow pockets well, it's a dream, what can be done is done

by someone shifting the scenery.

or the hills or pink or they are blue

and the painters are all painting it that way in the dream studio

but you there in the doorway whose dream it is are

standing in the doorway and can't move a shoe inside

well what do you want? A bus to dreamland?

I dreamed of buses too. the drivers forgot where they were going

and just disapeared and you got off in a town

that wasn't there before

or after

mary angela douglas 12 february 2015