Will you follow me into the consuming
Wretchedness of my nightly dreams
To visit where my sorrows lie
Will you hold my trembling heart
In the darkness of starless skies and
Soothe me as my salty tears flow
Will you take my hand and
Assure me my fears are untrue
And the alien thoughts that
Taunt me forever are false
Will you try to understand that
I am caged inside my nightmares
Where hopefulness fails to appear
And in my waking thoughts
Will you hold me close whilst
A wild comet with glaring
Plumage flies across the sky and
Tell me the ghastly earth where
War reigns and fields of blood moan
And the eerie melody of killing is unreal
Will you convince me there still lingers
A holy sweetness in this tattered world
Of conflict bitterness and war and that
Death is but a chimera
By James G. Piatt
James G. Piatt earned his B.S. and M.A. from California State Polytechnic University, and his doctorate from Brigham Young University. He was an electronic engineer, a high school science teacher, a principal of a high school for at-risk students, and a junior college Dean. He taught philosophy, psychology, and engineering mathematics at Allan Hancock College and was professor of education at California State Polytechnic University, and Chapman University, VAFB.
Two of his relatives, John James Piatt and Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, were prolific poets who wrote in the mid and late 1800s. Their poems have influenced his poetry.
James was the featured poet in Word Catalyst Magazine in 2009, and Contemporary American Voices in 2010. Long Story Short selected one of his poems for the poem of the month in 2011, and Phati’tude Literary Magazine’s Spring 2011 issue will have an interview of him. He has had over 125 poems, eighteen short stories and seven non-fiction essays published.
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