Flight of Fancy

Initial excitement
seeming animation
Suspended, in wonder
Fleeting, floating
In a flight of fancy
As the clouds
Outside my window

Drink in hand
Feet up, and a pillowed back
Comfort and service
fit for a king
suspiciously pandering treatment
one should have known
better

the richness of the offerings
the abundance
of graces bestowed
must be appreciated with
much gratitude
as a condemned prisoner
walking his last

For the lost taste
Merely lends to blandness
And the unaffordable
Luxury
Is ultimately seen
As without sense or meaning…

GPL 9/6/11