Castle of the Unknown

You escape into a castle of the unknown

And find a note in the entryway

which is composed in free verse

that leads you through many doors

opening to its various hidden rooms.

Inside the first room is an eyeball on the wall

named Zod.

The next room contains stationary as old as silence,

or perhaps older.

It leads to an antique room made of salt.

And there is yet another room

dreamed of in a kiss.

Entirely white, it can never be remembered.

Through the doorway a sparrow now enters

and mid-way in flight it stops and becomes

feathers only feathers.

An old piano plays in the hallway

whose notes are but whispers

that have never known morning.

These are the kind of sad processions

that remain the unwritten music

in the dormitory of the mind.

And it is too bad you will not return to reason

though it is without reason that we create new roads

and you will ask

is reality not but a dream?

but it is only memory that pretends an answer.