Analysis of I Just Woke Up
You know when you first open your eyes but the dream you were just in still stirs in your vision?
Maybe you don’t but I do dream vividly every single night and
when I wake up there is a moment
like a blink where dreamland is still floating in my eyes
lingering in my mind.
Where this reality feels like the “dream” and the dream feels like reality.
Just a blink of a world without hate, where the people and the planet are safe before my heart sinks my body sighs
the dream vanishes from my eyes.
When I first open after hours of being folded, where I have been engulfed in a world my brain molded
loose is the grasp of who I am and what I’m doing, then in mere seconds the grasp tightens to the max making getting up less appealing.
So many people of the world live day to day in a daze so thick they insist they are certain this fog is real just like I could have sworn I was just swimming in a sea with red dolphins before I climbed torn curtains.
So much confusion.
The grasp tightens
this is why the sleep is an escape
or is it a lesson?
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Characters | 1,063 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 55 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 820 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 208 |
About this poem
I wrote this short poem right after I woke up one morning. I dream vividly every single night and writing helps me process them. I wish to share it to see if anyone out there connects with the experience of dreams feeling realer than life.
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Written on June 21, 2021
Submitted by isherpa1 on September 24, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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