Kurt Philip Behm

Becoming The Dream

Today

I unlocked

a new window

 

One

I had never

opened before

 

Air

rushing in

calling me back

 

Voices

familiar

yet foreign to name

 

And

as I passed through

that new window

 

Leaving

behind

what used to be me

 

Losing

my shadow

to futures long past

 

Reaching

for something

—becoming the dream

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)