Dec 9, 2016 Daily Life, Ramblings and Musings

 Nightmare-Dream-Nightmare
(What I Wrote Before Going to Sleep Last Night)
©December 8th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

I’m dreaming about an alternate world, a parallel reality.

In this world, The Drmpfster flickers like an image in a hazy, half-remembered nightmare, the kind from which you awake, your mouth open in a soundless scream. You look around and drink in all the peace and beauty that you know exists in this world. Then, you notice your mouth is dry and you go downstairs to get a drink of water. Sipping slowly, you stand – while your heart stops hammering and goes on to its more measured rhythm – gazing out your kitchen window, to see a landscape flooded in moonlight, and the promise of a glorious tomorrow.

You know that when this morrow comes, you will not be wasting time on FB and news articles, scanning madly like a crazed thing for any kind of news that’s good. When this morrow comes, the trees will glow brightly. Birds will sing, and bees will go about their bee-business.

In this world, when the morrow comes, the voices of cheerful children and parents and grandparents and other grown-ups of all races will be part of the air you breathe.

In this parallel world, there are no oil-spills, no pipelines, no dying seas, no loss of ocean life, no species disappearing, no earthquakes caused by human activity, no lack of rich, organic food.

In this world people will help those who fall, or are hurting, and songs will be sung while the usual scenes of living and striving play out, but without that sense of hideous malevolence that looms over us like the blooming of a darkness that cannot be understood.

You stand and envision this world, and smile when you remember what the morrow will bring. Your certainty in the parallel universe is diamond-bright.

And then, the dream fades, and the flickering nightmare world rushes back in like a loathsome, disease-flecked tide, bearing on its crest the Destroyer Of Worlds.
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