Is why awareness must be
Participant in them.
Fine if the brain needs to dream
To winnow, shuffle, and comb
Through tangles of memories,
Finding ways to fit the new
Usefully among the old,
The better-prepared to wake.
But why drag awareness in
To feel hallucinations,
And most of all, most of all,
Why the out-of-proportion,
Unhinged, over-large, intense
Storm surges of emotions?
Listen to someone struggle
To adequately narrate
The terror or the pathos
Or the fine charm of their dream.
They’ll explain the happenings—
The flights, ghost lovers, longings—
But it’s not enough, is it?
Even the teller knows it—
It doesn’t seem that scary,
It doesn’t sound that perfect,
But it was terrifying,
But I felt so peaceful there.
The scientists who explain
Successfully dreamed feelings
Could unknot the need for dreams.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.