Deep Within

   Deep Within

Deep within the darkness,
Deep within the night,
   Deep within my bed,
Visions come in sight.
   Of rooms all filled,
   With Love distilled.
Beautiful and bright;
 All is good and right.

Deep beneath the counterpane,
 Deep within my head,
    Deep within my hidden brain,
I am nightly led;
     To days long past,
     Which would not last;
To joyous times long dead,
 When Nancy and I wed.

Deep inside the border,
   Deep within Dream Land,
      Deep behind the fringed lids,
I have come to stand,
      Where there I see,
      A younger me,
With a future oh how grand!
 And my family hand in hand.

 Deep from in my skull,
  Deep from in my mind,
     Deep from in my slumber,
Now I wake to find,
      A nightmare life,
      Without my wife,
All joy I left behind;
 Only sleep is kind.

                             

           ---- Mark Barnard
       2006