Us

US

I wanted us to become

A dream of a dream inside a dream.

But, like the night, it has to end.

We have to eventually open our eyes.

Eventually, we have to count the seconds,

The minutes, the hours, until

The dream of a dream inside a dream

Talks to our hearts and lets us be.

I wanted us to be true to love's vows.

But the dream of a dream inside a dream

Kept us unconscious of the tides.

The world changed and our songs faded,

Until our voices turned into atoms of emptiness.

But isn’t emptiness another form of abundance?

When we grope for the light, don’t we touch the wind?

Even when absence calls our names, don’t we feel

Some connection to the invisible?

The dream of a dream inside a dream...

That’s all we are, until we realize

That endings are just beginnings,

That all the detours we take lead to the right path.

The dream of a dream inside a dream

Is I and We and They

And all these things that we fashion in our minds.

Because mind is spirit, and spirit is soul.

And soul is dream...

©2009 Cendrine Marrouat

That's it for today! Thank you for reading!

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Cendrine Marrouat is a writer, photographer, podcaster, blogger, anthology editor, and the co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms and A Warm Cup of Cozy. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 books, including The Train: A Short Story (2023), In Her Own Words: A Collection of Short Stories & Flashku (2022), After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran & Alphonse de Lamartine (2021), Rhythm Flourishing: A Collection of Kindku and Sixku (2020), Walks: A Collection of Haiku (2019-2020), and In the Silence of Words: A Three-Act Play (2018).

Cendrine's work has appeared in many publications. She is the creator of the Sixku, Flashku, Sepigram, and Reminigram; as well as the co-creator of the Kindku, Pareiku, Vardhaku, and Hemingku.