Therapeutic Dream
(Epoch One: 1979-1982)
I had a dream
While I was dreaming
It didn't seem
Like a dream
It felt so real
That I awoke with tears.
I was avoided like the plague,
Placed in solitary confinement
But most hurtful of all
It was you who threw away the key.
As I laid there in a fetal rest
I noticed you fragmented behind the bars.
Trying to explain why
Accusing me of being
A schizophrenic, paranoid individual
With homosexual tendencies.
And I protested.
Oh woman! Why did you have to be
Like all the rest-
Pretending you cared, having me believe
You loved me?
And you responded silently
Remaining cold, colorless, motionless
Like the bars which divided us
Not wanting to be accused
Of losing your Freudian rehearsed objectivity.