what are dreams? for sometimes they taste like elixir of hope, sometimes they are born as flowers in celestial rain, cupped from a waterfall of angel tears. they pull my mind in directions no compass has shown me before, fueling my creativity, like fairydust melting into my veins. i have dreamed people before i met them; i have felt things i have never felt in real life. i have visited worlds in which life is an ocean and moon goddesses sail across their boat. worlds in which no identity is segregated and you are everything of what they contain. the night has shown me what light cannot; my dreams have stirred the sand at the bottom of my consciousness and caused ripples in the silence. i have slipped into as many skins as i have shed them. i have fallen in love as many times as meteoroids have fallen into earth's arms. i have always looked beyond what my eyes could see . . . some times, the dreams bless. other times, they curse.
what are dreams? for other times they are distractions that veil reality, diminishing its stark shadows. other times they are reminders of things my hands will physically never touch. clouds stuck in my throat, thorns in my shins. i discovered that happiness can be blue. and there is a sort of beauty existing in all the ugly things. rose-sweet souls sculpted by mind in slumber. tapping rain on glass. lull in the snowstorm. god hands me dreams and laughs when they melt in my palms. well, what did you expect? they are only inside your head. figments of your imagination, nothing more.
but do they need to be more? the things you sleepwalk through day to day, are they more meaningful, are they any more real than the images your subconsciousness projects into your memories? artists, rebels, writers, they are all dreamers . . . their world is shaped by their hopes, heart's desires, their determination to create the life they wish to embody . . . and most importantly, their dreams. i do believe that there are places which only your dreams will carry you. stay wondrous about everything. stay light. the heart suffers when it is heavy.
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