Just A Dream

Running through the darkened forest, quicker than a deer amid a hunt and dragging my feet like the knuckles of an old Orangutan, I see nothing.

The branches hit my face with fierce meaning and for a second I almost stop. But, I can't.

Running faster I can hear the terror approaching, feel the darkness taking over and yet it's already here.

My mind is dark, my eyes are too yet I can see clearly and I feel free. Free, but utterly terrified.

The laughter of menace fastly approaches and my knees begin to buckle. My ankle give way, one then two and I fall.

All but a second I am collapsed as a heap on the floor before I am caught and taken away.

The journey a mixture of dreamlike and reality. I don't know if I am to go up or down or stay balanced and part of this inner reality.

I am scared but in a way, I can not describe as accurately as it feels.

Like the first sight of a mothers child.

Like the first orgasm.

Like the first trip.

Like the first kiss.

Fearful yet full of light, excitement, happiness.

I'm led away to a dream, a dream that I cannot wake up from.

But I tell myself this is just a dream.

This is just a dream.

Just a dream.