Thoughts

by Mark Burrs

While lying on the dock staring up at the blue and white drifting canvas above, I had this epiphany.
Thoughts are like clouds
in so many ways
from the light hearted white ones
to the darkened soul greys

Sometimes in focus
easily discerned
others mis-shapen
hopelessly blurred

When winds are blowing
they churn round and round
fragments scattered
few pieces found

At times they're dark
and rather low
heavily drifting
wind and rain blow

At moments of calm
one can look at the scene
when things coalesce
waking out of a dream

My thoughts are drifting
like clouds over time
from thunderhead dark
to the silvery cloud nine