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?
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.
Written on June 21, 2021
Submitted by isherpa1 on September 24, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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