Dream Merge

A poem

last night or maybe it was last year

I woke up from a dream only to realize

it was not my dream it was yours

and the more I remembered this dream I realized it wasn’t a dream

I was remembering something that was not my memory

and so it seems I got in your memory

you invited me in and I was there that time that you almost drowned that time that you almost died

I felt it the terror the hopelessness and then the surrender so sweet to just give up and let go

body cold mind numb just let it all go this life this breath

let the waves take you underwater to the realm of the mermaids

and then and then a voice

no not yet stop swallowing water stay afloat live kick despite the exhaustion

because your life your precious life is yet to be lived

you had no strength left but somehow you kicked just enough to stay afloat

and let the waves take you let the waves uplift you and finally eventually carry you to shore

and so you woke up from that dream and then you kept dreaming until I dreamed it too

and now as I wake up from the dream I see

that dreaming is living

and living is dreaming

and living and dreaming

are all about dying

Thank you for reading!