Awaken!
Some sleepy sentinels lie in wait,
whose time is now
to think.
To think, perchance to dream.
To dream, perchance to live in a nightmare,
in your rocking cradle.
Such lives I interrupt with my
couplets and pentameter.
Your life becomes my life when you enter that door,
just as my life is yours
for as long as you will have it.
clr 2012