Pathway of Love: Fading Dream

 

When I awake

I’m in the nightmare

Of realization

That my dream is gone.

 

Snapped out of it,

Why couldn’t I keep

Dreaming?

 

Where nothing dies,

And the weather right,

No matter the season,

Laugh that carries life.

 

I scribble it down,

Put into a frame,

Desperately

Trying to remember.

 

Don’t let it crumple,

It’ll never be

Perfect again.

 

Won’t you say,

Please, I can sleep

Again and

Dream.

 

Don’t leave me,

My perfect dream,

You’re fading away,

And I’m in this

Waking nightmare.

 

All my maladies

Are no more

If only

I could restore

My dream.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Done as part of a project for Ha Jin's Waiting. This symbolic of the idea of "the one that got away" and the desire to return to that particular time period and/or restore it.  In respect to the book this is partially shown by Manna's keeping of Mai Dong's letters and artifacts. Though never fully explored and explained, it is assumed she misses him and wants to keep her memory of him alive despite it being over. 

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