Back to Reality

[Kamal_Farran]

Back to Reality

I could imagine myself lying on waves of soft music.
Listening to the laughter of dancing emotions.
Looking at rivers of opportunities and journeys.
The world celebrating me, and I celebrating it.

With these images in my mind I faced the day.
Armed with dreams to face life.
Keeping to imagination to ignore reality.
Being stupid and preparing the ground for a new disappointment.

It came like a flood over hills and mountains.
It hit like a rock into the glassy defences of my mind.
Its dagger cut deep into the inners of my heart.
It opened my eyes, and I saw my real life.

I searched for my music, its silence was deafening.
I looked at my light, it was melting into blackness.
I screamed and my voice just laughed back at me.
I wanted to hide but realized I had no body to hide.

A different noise erupted and tore my ears to pieces.
A sudden light flashed and burned my eyes.
More voices joined my desperate screams and started howling around me.
All became nothing, and nothingness engulfed all.

The sun froze, and turned colder than emptiness.
The wind stood still, and fell silent.
Clouds wept and rivers grew into floods of misery.
Trees mourned the death of hope and wailed desperate melodies.

It wasn't the first time I die.
But it was the worst death...
Death had never caught me unprepared.
I usually die my own way!