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Dream within a dream Dec. 28, 2012

  

Does she sleep long enough to dream, this dread of nightmare she’s expressed so many times dove the years, the locking and unlocking of doors, need to keep safe from real or imagined dangers, no high road, only the lowest of low, we dare not tread on too long, the end of the year making it all too real, too painful to dwell on, a nightmare from which we need to wake, yet when we wake, we still dream?

Do we trust sleep to hear us, or are we trapped in a never-ending cycle of fear, scared to close our eyes to sleep, terrified to wake up, this dream within a dream, with the realization we might never wake?

Do we sleep long enough to dream, to feel the dread of nightmare when all we want from life is love, and fear most what love can become, and if it was every anything more than mist in the morning, the need to fell less pain, this dream we dream with the hope when we wake we will feel hope still, how we might untangle ourselves from this chain reaction, wake up to find we are not awake at all, just dreaming a different dream we can never wake up from.

 


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