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“ Dream Merchants ”
– be ne’er what they seem –
The merchants of dream
Be ne’er what they seem,
Hence I caution beware
If you chance let them in,
Apathetic be a risky dare
For they’ll exploit within,
As dream merchants play
Thus to get neath the skin,
That will trap you to stay…
Of their dreams be alert
Tho you might judge fair,
They’ll distort and divert
As you indulge their spin,
What’s at stake be aware
You may find but chagrin,
As the pawn for their fare…
Ye soon find be soul bare
The while merchants grin,
From their deviant affair
Best not chance ye begin,
With dreams fated unfair,
Held by narcissistic strings…
Dream merchants shroud
That which flogs palaver,
Fake fine weather clouds
And what gullibles bear,
Their dreams of effusion
Suggest wouldst be real,
Tho but empty illusions
With an unfulfilled zeal,
When too late ye discover
Soul they managed to steal,
Cause of true dreams, to disappear!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Ode to Dreamers
of dedication to vivid imagination,
and in search of honesty…
Music, excerpt of Around Midnight, by Chet Baker
Art work, from Dream World images…
Poetry on a canapé 