What do dreams tell you?

Posted on by Reena Saxena

I wake up with a feeling of unease
not sure what my dreams are telling me

dreams tell, but do not explain -appearance
of shadows from the known and unknown

shadows of whatever touched me, or walked past
past – indelible, imperceptible marks

wounds that don’t hurt, but flare up in the dark
write scenarios not happened, but do haunt

scenarios which my subconscious paints
stories as a backdrop for what is to come

irrelevant stories – I’d like to discard
if I know what demons grow big in the dark

demons to be stopped, before they become disease
I wake up with a feeling of unease

MTB: The Duplex II dVerse

28 thoughts on “What do dreams tell you?”

  2. This is deliciously dark and haunting, Reena. I especially resonate with; “shadows of whatever touched me, or walked past/past – indelible, imperceptible marks/wounds that don’t hurt, but flare up in the dark.” Yes 💛💛💛

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  7. I think you capture not just the form, but all the feelings we can all have around dreams at times – unease, are they portents etc. great poem…

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  11. A haunting dream duplex, Reena, and I identify with waking up with a feeling of unease ‘not sure what my dreams are telling me’ and those ‘wounds that don’t hurt, but flare up in the dark’.

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