POETRY by DUSTYBEAR - PG 15 - IMAGERY

hehe.. It was just a dream a regular ordinary dream, lying under my sheets with feats of untold imagery swirling through my unconcious state. THEN fate stepped in. SUDDENLY from out of NOWHERE a flare went off. You scoff but it's true. FLASHES of pure white flame SHOT through my dreamy place. SHOT up into space and then just when I thought the fireworks were entirely done, ONE INCREDIBLE THING HAPPENED WOW! WOW!!!!!! How.. where who? who .... who are you? In my sleep, I sat bolt upright... my sheet clung to tight. I shivered quivered shuddered and then I uttered the words I couldn't believe I was hearing myself say. Hey.. you. Yeh you there.  Where did you come from? Who? Who ARE you? I strained to look to see to FEEL... every hair on my body stood frozen on end. My whole body shook at this vision. Do I hear derision from you? I swear it's true. It just stood there square in front of me. The most beautiful creature I've EVER seen. Plainly , not a queen. A KING. I felt it's sting as it burrowed suddenly deep into my heart OH!!!!!! I tried to move but it had worn a groove deep into my senses and into my heart. I awoke with a start. WHAT? WHO? WHAT THE>>>>>>? I slowly climbed out of bed still shaking shivers of emotion... the notion crossed my mind that was NO ORDINARY dream. Even my spleen felt tight raw achy from the strain. There was rain that day stayed that way poured, then more gentle different...yet familiar and it seemed similar to the dream I had had somehow. Work went ok, the way it usually does. Nothing strange cause there never is and through the day a strange fizz in my mind kept me slightly agitated and periodically it regurgitated itself into my conciousness, reminding me... of the terribly disquieting dream... the vision I had seen. The PURE EMOTION the notion overcoming me that this was NO ordinary dream. The scene was WAY too vivid. I was livid at myself, angry almost...to be host to  such a screwy thought. I fought the urge yet a SURGE of something would go through me each time. I would climb a mountain only to tumble back down. A frown upon my face, I left the building my head down against the battering precip, the trip home, foremost on my mind resigned to driving slow...you know. I was focused on home and a roaring fire. I stopped to admire something in a store window and suddenly OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe my eyes! for there, reflected in the window... there, right there, right in front of me, was the scene I had seen in my... no... It couldn't be. Not from my dream. I stood transfixed at the shadowy misty window occasional flashes of light bright and eerie from the headlights of passing cars. NO stars tonight I thought... trying to regain some semblance of normality some point of reference to reality. NO. no. I blinked..and yes it was still there I realized I was shaking, quaking like a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar. How far ago that seemed now. I wanted to RUN to turn, scream and RUN but how? Almost on cue I felt something on my shoulder and heard the same voice from my night time rendezvous with destiny. "PARDON ME," I heard that voice say "can you tell me the time?" I felt my heart CLIMB up into my throat NOTE TO SELF: FIND VOICE: make noise something anything. THIS CANT BE HAPPENING, snapping me to attention once again. "I'M sorry..but please..." Somehow, I found the courage to turn and look into the eyes of the most beautiful human being I have ever seen. I wanted to scream omg. OH MY GOD! I struggled to find the words yes, of course........................... I dont think anything came out of my opened mouth. My senses had gone south and somewhere around my knees, if you please, was my heart. I think I almost felt a start of an engine. Somewhere inside of me and no more afraid, I felt FREE. I felt a hand on my arm. Are you all right? [oh yes..I'M MORE all right  than you will ever know.] YES, I screamed [silently] , vehemently, with all the force I could muster, I whispered, "YES." cough.. yes. cough YES! YES YES YES YES YES YES! IM FINE! Now. So fine, thank you... and suddenly I knew and.... so did YOU! Thank God...so did YOU! and I saw, in your eyes, NO surprise... but what I saw was the most wonderful prize and yes, so did you... and so WE knew, didn't you...and I that day, and now we play and laugh about the way we met. I bet you knew all along that we belong together, didn't you... didn't you. I have never dared to ask. it's enough to just bask in the warmth of the most beautiful love I could have ever known or dreamed of. LOVE, when you least expect it and nothing to be afraid of after all. Its a ball and every day I fall all over again and you knew I would, didn't you. Didn't you, but I wonder. How did you know which dream to look in? To come to? How did you know to? But you did didn't you...didn't you. True love IS really the stuff of dreams, after all. Ahhh. THATS how you knew... and you did, didn't you.  Didn't you.