An Escape Into Dreams
By Jennifer Kiley
10.10.12
romantic setting
An Escape Into Dreams
By Jennifer Kiley
10.10.12
Too tired to sleep
But a voice calls out
“We can only meet in dreams
Come to me now my sweet
I need you near to me.”
Struggling to write
Just one more line
Complete one more verse
Then it would be time
Came satisfaction
To give to my night visitor
I promised in a haze
I’m drawn to bed
The music played
My eyes they closed
My head laid down
In sweet repose
My sleep was entered quickly
An unconscious state
I looked around
And she was there
Love she bloomed so bright
Her arms she wrapped around me
She pulled me close to her
If only I could feel you
Just once when I’m awake
My thinking mind
It drifted
She put her hand in mine
She led me down
Beside our stream
Down our bodies fell
Cushions of grass
They held our forms
As we rolled
In each other’s arms
Her breath was upon my lips
Touched gently
My yielded flesh
But no physical caress
Is offered yet
My desire built
My heart it pounded
My whole body’s
Warmth is bounded
I am prisoner
To her body now
I felt her touch
I wanted so much
I dared not speak this time
For fear of dreams
They will dissolve
And nothing remained the same
We always got this far somehow
Then fairies stopped the game
They changed my surroundings
Blindly led me away
Took me close
To the mountain’s edge
At the dawning light of day
They walked me slowly
Whispered in my ear
Distracted words they said
And when I took
Just one more step
I started falling to my death
But I just knew
Before I touched ground
A giant grabbed me rough
Abruptly awakened from my dreams
Upright my body jolted
Alarmed by all
That had occurred
My breathing labored fast
I thought that this time
I would conclude
But it never ever lasted
So one more day
I did not die
My dreams repeated
One more time
Will love ever
Be ever after
Or continued on
Most every night
Living unhappily
Never after
Or a dream
Where I
Took flight
And never
Landed
Any night
© Jennifer Kiley 2012
“You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always think of you.” ~ J.M. Barrie ~
Idina Menzel & Lea Michele-I Dreamed A Dream
Lovely poem, Jennifer…love and death,,,two archetypal themes that are always compelling and often dreamed in the same dream…as both signify letting go of control, fear, surrender, the loss of Self.
Thank you. I have had these dreams so repeatedly. A closeness and switching and falling and my body shaking in the bed abruptly. It feels all so real. The most significant death dreams I had which had stayed in my mind in such vivid imagery. Of all things to occur, it takes place a half mile from where we live in Vermont, I feel like I am in a astral body floating when it happens. An atomic bomb is droppped and explodes. The percussion is intense and the devastation of the area is complete. My senses are that I have died but I feel no fear. The dream/nightmare continues until eventially I wake. I often die in dreams and I often have very intimate closeness with women, also, usually people I know and often famous women in the acting profession. So in my dreams I am able to surrender and let go of all inhibition that I feel when awake. It doesn’t phase me to do anything and feel anything. My feelings emotional and physical can be quite intense. There are also the negative dreams as well which shift over to nightmares. The symbolism in my dreams/nightmares are so archetypal in their themes. That is one of the reasons I love John Lennon’s quote about whether we can actually say whether the dream is real and the real is actually the fantasy. A rough shortening of his meaning but dragons, fairies, and mystical, magical creatures are all part of the dream/fantasy or real/dream coming alive. J K