Before A Dream Poem by Tony Adah

I want to do this
Before I go to bed
Sleep and dream
About potbellied politicians
And their effervescent wealth
To my own chagrin

Digression
Or go to xanadu
Fly myself like a witch
In an invisible aircraft
Land on my garden
Where lilies and daffodils
Beautifully sit waving at my arrival

Or stay on
searching for words
To weave poetry
Or borrow strands of weaving stuff
From the waiting raffia standing
By the silent river going
Down the hill.

Perhaps nothing works
Then tread the path of the river
With my pitcher, fetch this
Liquid of life for a transfusion.