Chemical Dreams

I recently entered an online competition in which you had to produce a poem to a set form. The form was a varient on the sestina, abridged to make it more manageable for the competition, and I guess you'll have to trust that I managed to stick to the form. Anyway I found out this morning that I won! Granted, I think there were only about 7 entries but all the same.....

Feeling happy and the need to inflict my very minor success on you all - hope you like it!

Chemical Dreams

I fall awake from chemical dreams
absorbing the sleepy light of day;
knowing that all is not as it seems,
wondering whether I’m here to stay.

I have a strange feeling about this day
the light is heavier than it seems.
The gathering clouds are here to stay;
billowing darkly around my dreams.

Time passes slowly, or so it seems,
a wandering moment is here to stay;
settling softly within my dreams,
breathing the warmth of a summers day.

So deep in this moment I will stay
buried within my chemical dreams.
No more to seek the cold light of day,
wishing that life was more than it seems.