These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.
Emily DickinsonWe dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —
Emily DickinsonAssent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.
Emily Dickinson