Falling
In this session, I am overwhelmed,
And my life seems out of control.
My counselor hones in on the feeling
Until I remember a recurring dream
Of falling from a great height.
In these dreams, I never make a sound.
But now I let myself scream,
Remembering the landscape far beneath me
And my feet touching nothing but air.
At last, the words of the writer Neil Gaiman come to me.
He said that when you dream of falling,
Sometimes you wake up as you fall,
Sometimes you wake on impact,
And sometimes
You discover you can fly.
Seattle, Washington, USA
(Present Time 182, January 2016)
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