Dreams (first drop)

I wrote this a few years ago. I read a few posts here today felt like contributing. Sorry in advance about the caps I copied this from a word doc because I was to lazy to retype it.

I DON’T DREAM WHEN I SLEEP

BECAUSE WHEN YOU WAKE UP DREAMS LEAVE

AND BECOME NOTHING MORE THAN

INAUDIBLE MEMORIES OF LIFE’S REPRISE

BROKEN STORIES WITH ELABORATE SCENES

NOW I ONLY DAY DREAM

SO WHEN I’M AWAKE MY DREAMS ARE WITH ME

IT MIGHT SEEM STINGY TO HARBOR THESE DREAMS

BUT YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND

HOW HARD IT IS TO TRY AND MANAFEST A DREAM

THAT YOU HAD WHILE AWAKE DEALING WITH REALITY

IT WOULD BE EASY TO LAY MY HEAD DOWN

NEXT TO THE HEADBOARD

AND LET THE SUBCONSCIOUS FANTASIES POUR

SEE DREAMING WHILE YOU ARE AWAKE

IS LIKE MAKING LOVE TO A ?

UNTIL YOU REALIZE LOVE ISN’T WHAT SHE’S THERE FOR

SO YOU STOP AND GET OFF

AND ALL YOU’RE LEFT WITH

IS AN AFTER THOUGHT

A REMINDER THAT THERE’S NOT ALWAYS

A REWARD FOR GOOD INTENTIONS

FOR SOME A DREAM IS A POOL OF REFLECTION

OF WHO THEY WISH TO BE AND WHO THEY USED TO BE

COMES ONLY IN BLURRED RECOLLECTION

HOPING THAT WHEN THEY AWAKE

THEY’LL BE ABLE TO CHANGE THEIR FATE

WITH THE RISE OF A NEW Tomorrow

I KNOW THAT A NIGHTMARE

IS NOTHING MORE THAN A DREAMS SHADOW

AN EMPTY SHELL REFLECTING FEARS THAT ARE HOLLOW

I MET A WOMAN WHO’S THIRD EYE

ASKED IF I HAD A DREAM SHE COULD BARROW

AS IF IT WERE SPARE CHANGE

THAT WOULD WARRANT A RIDE ON A TRAIN

HEADED FOR DISTANT DREAM-SCAPES

ILLUMINATING DEEP SPACE

AND DARK CORRIDORS OF THE MIND

TICKETS PUNCHED BY A CONDUCTOR

WITH STARS FOR EYES

UNTIL A SUNRISE TOUCHES A DREAM

CAUSING ITS DEMISE

LEAVING BEHIND APPARITIONS OF R.E.M. SLEEP

SILK SCREENED ON OPEN EYES

CRYING FOR THE CLOSE OF THE BLINDS

AND TO BE NESSELED SOMEWHERE BETWEEN

10 P.M. AND THE END OF TIME YET DYING AT THE BREAK OF DAY

GASPING FOR LIFE AS SUN RAYS CHOKE AWAY MEMORIES

OF UTOPIAN REMAINS

WHILE THE SOUNDTRACK TO A NIGHTS SLEEP

TAPS AT THE WINDOW PANE

ONLY TO BE REVISITED BY NAVIGATING TO THE ASTRAL PLANE

I DON’T DREAM WHEN I SLEEP

BECAUSE FALSE PREVIEWS

OF AN UNTRUE DESTINY DON’T MOVE ME

I DREAM IN REALITY

NOT IN SOME DISTORTED MOVIE

WHERE THE SCRIPT USUALLY CONSISTS

OF REDUNDANT VERBIAGE

THAT SOMEHOW HAS INVADED YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS

RANDOM CLIPS OF ?

THAT SKIP FROM ONE FRAME TO THE NEXT

AND WHEN YOU WAKE UP IT MAKES NO SENSE

DREAMS SEEM TO ACT AS AN ESCAPE

FROM A REALITY SOME PEOPLE CAN’T TAKE

SO THEY ENTERTAIN THEIR MINDS

WITH A REALITY THAT IS FAKE

I RATHER LIVE MY DREAMS WHILE I’M AWAKE