A Prayer of Walter Mitty's -Edit

[Tiger the Lion]

Paul,

I liked the poem through the first three lines. Interesting play on words with "rouse me". I can't decide if it was intended or not. Probably or you would have used "wake me".

If one were to say the first three lines were inspired, then the last line seems disingenuous, unless of course it is alluding to something that I am not aware of, in which case I still don't like it. It has been however, nearly forty years since I last read the story, although I did see the Ben Stiller movie recently. All I got from that is that Ben Stiller is too intense to play Walter Mitty (it's in the eyes), although I did think Sean Penn did very well with his role, even though I do not like Sean Penn personally.
Maybe you will tell me if L4 relates to something specifically from the story...

dale

You're right. The 4th line is somewhat of a personal departure. At this point my instinct is to strike it. However, I did like the 4th line for symmetry (not that that is a justification). My problem now is without L4 it reads too much like a Senryu, and that is definitely not what I want...

she is a dream
and I love her

do not rouse me

See what I mean? I have since considered "not today" as L4 but I think that too creates as many issues as it solves.  

Paul