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Deliberate Acts of Self-Preservation
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Early 20s It started out by engaging in deliberate acts of self-preservation,
Conscientiously making reminders that this is not reality;
This is a dream…
Even if it is a dream come true,
It’s only a dream.
The problem is reality has its own agenda.
It wants what the dream has.
So every time the shift is made;
Moving from the dream’s embrace back to reality’s hold,
Reality reaches out its twisted hand
To tear the small and fragile dream away with it.
Reality greedily consumes the innocent dream
Feeding off of its energy and hope,
Trying to exist in a world like the dream.
But reality will not achieve metamorphosis in this way.
The dream must be sheltered and loved by reality,
Only then can the dream live to spin its silk like cocoon;
Encasing both the dream and reality in it
Until they both grow and mature together…
Into something more…
Something bigger…
Than the two separately could ever hope to be.
excellent
wonderfully vivid writing - you do a great job of planting images into the reader's mind with your wordplay
Reality reaches out its twisted hand
To tear the small and fragile dream away with it.
I just imagine a big cartoon hand tearing off a small piece of a cotton candy like substance - just taking a few strands off, and it's wonderful when your writing can take me into my own imagination like that - agree with the message as well
'maybe we can become more *than* one *as* one' - excerpt from one of my poems that i'm currently drawing a blank on the title hah