A Dream Experience And Its Impressions 1

Written by: Timilehin Ogundipe

Last night's dream was awfully unusual

Some thing I rarely have experienced

Death and destruction not of Nature's

But the casualties caused by humans.

Heartless, robot like cruel humans.

Striking adults with black cannons

Smashing babies like clay figures.

Body parts scattered every where.

Amid all that chaos stood my frozen, cold face, statue like figure

Devoid of any grief or sadness

Or the slightest frantic awareness.

Though in all honesty I should have been

Trembling and moaning with eyes closed

Unable to wake up from that horrible dream

But nothing like that of sort happened.

Waking consciousness took over eventually

Reconstructing the dream I became fearful

Recollecting my frozen icy expression

How should I think of that mental regression.

Does it resemble our mostly quiet life style

Partly brought upon with advancing years

Where deprived of new life adventures

Calm mind descends into eon collections.

Free and unhindered plays in its own scenarios

Or is it that I have become immune to suffering

Death, destruction, gunshots and bomb blasts

All kind of horror acts known for happenings.

It causes no emotional disturbance or

Personal impact when seen from a distance

Is it emotional maturity or lack of empathy?

A horrible state of mind to be in certainly.

To lose compassion for pain and suffering!

To become a neutral witness of dying babies!

Oh! Lord! Please never never let me become

Such a person not even in my dreams.

Let me remain a human with a grieving heart,

Extending a helping hand whenever I could,

Let me not be without the love and empathy

That connects us all from farthest of distance.

Let this dream not be the indication of what

Lies there beyond the time called golden years

When life transforms me into a heartless

Stone cold figure in a fragile cage of bones.



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