Peachy dreams

I walked as if in a dream.
slowly slipping towards the sea.
I saw my face in the water-
yet my eyes did not see me.

My eyes saw instead a mask,
some mad clown's masquerade.
The false guise of a fool,
who for a fool's been played.

In a flash of pain I awoke
Looking around I saw the sea.
On the sand I saw a dead man,
A bullet had set him free.

I walked lightly over to him-
no footprints did I make-
I looked down at his empty eyes,
"Lord giveth and he take"

All at once a madness took me,
staring at a face I'd known,
a face gentle and heartbroken,
a face that was my own...