My pen, I realize,
has made its own stray marks on the page
as I dozed off–
stray marks
or a cryptic message
from my subconscious?

Some do look like letters–
perhaps even words;
decipherable,
with an imaginative stretch:
perhaps
"let go,"
or,
"less goo,"
or,
"left again."

Maybe the ambiguity is intentional,
and whatever I interpret
is another, necessary message for me,
from me?

Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.