Fever Dream of Unicorns

 

When I awake from sleep,

From dreams
I always want to go back.
It’s another world or dimension.
It is stranger, scarier but so free.
At a mere thought or glimmer
Of thinking, you are somewhere else.
Yesterday’s was strange, 

more strange
And it felt so real-

Like there really is
Another dimension or world
I tap into in sleep.
More so because I had fever.
I remember: I was magical whitness
In beast & human form. 

I remember:
A lover, a friend and a car with wires
From a stalker. 

And tears well
When I think of the sick evil of
The scattered, decapitated horns 

and bones 

of my family...

 I remember flying to save a friend
From something awful, and my faceless lover
Doesn’t want me, and I was in heat. 

So much heat,
And one more thing: 

There was an old man with mud
Or blood around his mouth, and I don’t know 

If he

 was a relative or what. 

(I think he was my Grandpa)
In the first few moments of wakefulness, 
I feel so alien here, 

Like I don’t belong
Like, this isn’t real, 

This can’t be. 

What is this?
And what are we doing?
All the noises: 

Mowing, hammering, cutting and…
This is wrong. 

This isn’t living. This is dead.
This makes me sick. 
The real world  is there.  I just wish I could stay.
 
					

				

Reviews

[Pema Dorje]

a writers eye is alacrity,
dreams are the compass of the soul,
with the happenstance of meaning,
recycling all our love, the goal!

inside of my Heart, a wish fulfilling Gem is there... where time and space warps and wefts by its magic, removing all obstacles, past present and future, towards the goal of Love. Every day I shine the Gem as the goal gets closer and closer! ... ripples through time ... and all my Dreams become me ...

[Blackbirdsong]

You really captured that feeling of wanting to escape back into our dreams. I've had many mornings like this where I even tried to get back to the dream. It never work. I like the dream images mixed in the real ones. After a while I couldn't tell them apart. Which is like how it is when we're dreaming. :)