Once I awoke

To the sound of time

Brushing past my cheeks

And lightly through my hair.

I heard my life through a wire,

And I heard my memories as whispers

Falling from the sky with rain and sunlight

With dusk falling and the world spinning slowly

I awoke.

With the blood in my veins

And the air in my lungs pumping

With my eyes darting in my deep sleep

I awoke

To a world with many people walking backwards

And to birds flying through clouds made of my mind,

Through emotions floating like cobwebs on the northern lights

And buildings shooting up to meet the stars with empty glowing eyes.

I awoke

Roadways on fire lined by empty chairs sitting silent under jagged blue mountains

And aeroplanes making words in the sky and computers crying to me like lost children

I awoke

And all the world didn’t seem what it was with a hundred million visions exploding in each iris

I awoke

And found myself asleep

In my own bed

Looking sad

Smiling.